Theory of Achievement

Directed by Hal Hartley

With Bob Gosse, Jessica Sager, Jeffrey Howard, Elina Löwensohn and Bill Sage

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.