Theory of Achievement

Overview

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brooklynites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.

Director: Hal Hartley

Cast

Bob Gosse

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Jessica Sager

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Jeffrey Howard

Elina Löwensohn

Bill Sage

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Naledi Tshazibane

Mark Chandler Bailey

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Nick Gomez

Ingrid Rudefors