Theory of Achievement

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.

• Hal HartleyDirector
• Hal HartleyWriter

• Bob GosseCast
• Jessica SagerCast
• Jeffrey HowardCast
• Elina LöwensohnCast
• Bill SageCast
• Naledi TshazibaneCast
• Mark Chandler BaileyCast
• Nick GomezCast
• Ingrid RudeforsCast