You’re unlikely to find a better movie title this year than “Cha Cha Real Smooth.”
The romantic dramedy, about a floundering college grad-turned-bar mitzvah party starter (Cooper Raiff), is named for a lyric in DJ Casper’s dancefloor staple “Cha Cha Slide.” Raiff, who also wrote and directed the film, initially toyed with titles like “The Jig Conductor” and “No Grinding.”
“But nothing felt big enough to also be about this coming-of-age story,” Raiff, 25, explains. “And then I convinced myself that ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ was great because that’s the part of the song where you do your own dance. That felt meaningful in some way, but really, it’s a silly title.”
