[Director] Brooks plunges into the thick of a largely unfamiliar subculture in Quid Pro Quo, but the journey involves a series of well-telegraphed twists and turns.
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06/12/08
Quid Pro Quo (2008)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:20
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Despite a stunning performance by Vera Farmiga, Quid Pro Quo never develops its effective parts into a convincing whole.
Runtime: 82 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Quid Pro Quo is a dark, puzzling tale of strangers who crash into one another's lives and transform them forever. Isaac, a paraplegic, is a popular New York City public-radio reporter who is... [More]
Starring: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Aimee Mullins, Leonardo Nam
Director: Carlos Brooks
Reviews for Quid Pro Quo
The film is lightest on its feet when it shakes off the Red Shoe Diaries foreboding for moments of sly irony
06/13/08
It frustratingly refuses to go bonkers, but the film is a compelling sit, brought to life by two very crafty, pointed performances.
06/12/08
Like a fender-bender to David Cronenberg's Crash, Carlos Brooks' Quid Pro Quo is a tame, yet weird and wonderful love-letter to the walking wounded.
06/10/08
If you were a fan of David Cronenberg's Crash, you might just be the target audience for Quid Pro Quo, a perverse psychological drama about able-bodied people who yearn to become disabled.
06/13/08
Has some pretty insightful things to say about the nature of being "disabled," and it says them with a good deal of humor, style, and understanding.
01/28/08
Although not a perfect film, "Quid Pro Quo" is a highly crafted cinematic achievement that taps into its characters' subconscious with surgical precision and elegant assurance.
05/08/08
By far the movie's strong suit is Farmiga, who gives an astonishingly layered performance,
07/02/08
Brooks has no idea how to pace his irritatingly giddy script, and the film feels overlong at 82 minutes.
06/13/08
has the best "middle" I've seen in a long time
08/13/08
Brooks tiptoes into territory Luis Bunuel would have frolicked in, but he does so without the master surrealist's desire to outrage and confound his viewers.
06/13/08
Top CriticIn fact, "Quid Pro Quo" is not at all funny, merely occasionally sarcastic, its plot a succession of half-baked pop-psych speculations and its dialogue a glib sampling of sub-Diablo Cody incredibility
08/08/09
Very deftly made, with some lovely cinematography and two quirky, engaging lead performances, it's a satisfying debut.
06/20/08
This odd little fugue of a movie would be implausible, even laughable, if it weren't also marvelously played, visually composed and plotted with the utmost cunning.
06/13/08
Might work if it was really about what it's really about, but its too-tricky script has too many paths that lead nowhere.
06/12/08
An obscure and terrifying mental disorder leads a reporter to the strangest and then the most terrifying story of his life. A neat film noir in a very modern setting amongst people who are not all there.
06/17/08
While a good director can spin a worthy movie from any subject, first-timer Carlos Brooks does surprisingly little with the jaw-dropper of a topic he chose.
06/13/08
The first half of Quid Pro Quo is among the most jaw-dropping things I’ve ever seen: Who knew there was a closeted subculture of people pretending to be paraplegics?
06/09/08
Quid Pro Quo is a respectable feature-film debut for Mr. Brooks, and it remains reasonably thought-provoking without ever becoming emotionally absorbing.
06/11/08
It certainly won’t be everyone’s cup of breakfast bitters, but you can’t dismiss it nonchalantly.
06/11/08
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August 11, 2008:
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June 19, 2008:
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June 16, 2008:
Not exactly Bunuel's differently abled erotica classic Tristana, it raises mystifying questions about disability as a state of mind. And whether or not the final clues to this mind over matter mystery reside in sex, shoes or tulips, hypochondriacs beware.
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May 18, 2008:
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