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Theory of Achievement (1991)
⭐ 6.2/10
13 votes
0h 18m

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Comedy
Drama

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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