Movie: Theory of Achievement

Top 9 Billed Cast

Bob Gosse
Bob Gosse

Jessica Sager
Jessica Sager

Jeffrey Howard
Jeffrey Howard

Elina Löwensohn
Elina Löwensohn

Bill Sage
Bill Sage

Naledi Tshazibane
Naledi Tshazibane

Mark Chandler Bailey
Mark Chandler Bailey

Nick Gomez
Nick Gomez

Ingrid Rudefors
Ingrid Rudefors

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1991-03-07

  • Average

    6.2

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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  • Languages:

    English

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