Theory of Achievement
Theory of Achievement
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Theory of Achievement

DirectorHal Hartley

6.3 / 10
1991
18 min
ComedyDrama

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.

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