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.

Cast

Bob Gosse

Jessica Sager

Jeffrey Howard

Elina Löwensohn

Bill Sage

Naledi Tshazibane

Mark Chandler Bailey

Nick Gomez

Ingrid Rudefors