Few films of the past decade captured my heart quite as much as Shithouse, a remarkably sensitive portrait despite its crass name.

Few films of the past decade captured my heart quite as much as Shithouse, a remarkably sensitive portrait despite its crass name.
For whatever reason, the “college film” has not been as malleable and consistent a format as the “high school film.”
When Cooper Raiff’s debut feature-length film, Shithouse, won the Jury Prize at the pandemic-truncated SXSW festival in March 2020, it represented the kind of meteoric rise to stardom that young filmmakers dream of.
On a superficial level, Cha Cha Real Smooth is extremely similar to Shithouse, Cooper Raiff’s debut from 2020.