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Quid Pro Quo
2008 82m R
Drama
,
Mystery
,
and more
6.1
58%
54%
52%
Play
A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.
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Directed By
Carlos Brooks
Written By
Carlos Brooks
Studio
HDNet Films
,
Sanford%2FPillsbury Productions
Cast of Quid Pro Quo
Nick Stahl
Isaac Knott
Vera Farmiga
Fiona Ankany
Rachel Black
Janice Musslewhite
Jessica Hecht
Edie
Jacob Pitts
Hugh
Ashlie Atkinson
Candy
Pablo Schreiber
Brooster
Jeane Fournier
Charlene Coke
James Frain
Father Dave
Aimee Mullins
Raine
Dylan Bruno
Scott
Kate Burton
Merilee
Michal Sinnott
Isaac's Mom
Joshua Leonard
Isaac's Dad
Ellen Marlow
Young Fiona
Tommy Nelson
Young Isaac
Quid Pro Quo Reviews
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Quid Pro Quo hovers in a noir-shaded twilight zone where repressed memories and guilt merge in an obsession with physical and emotional paralysis.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
[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.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
This warped masochistic cousin to David Cronenberg's Crash - not to be confused with the Oscar winner of the same name -- is well worth seeing for Farmiga's stunning performance.
San Francisco Chronicle
Reyhan Harmanci
Its biggest mystery is how it was financed (by Texas trillionaire and Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban, no less) and selected for distribution.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
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.
Boxoffice Magazine
Amy Nicholson
The film is lightest on its feet when it shakes off the Red Shoe Diaries foreboding for moments of sly irony
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
A finely observed, compelling drama with the creepy tinge of a thriller.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
A bleakly humorous romantic character study, Quid Pro Quo is appealingly offbeat until its narrative takes a wayward detour into pat simplifications.
Paste Magazine
Alissa Wilkinson
The film, intimately shot, sidesteps exploitative potential, and the finely tuned screenplay obscures its titular theme (colloquially translated "tit for tat") in multiple layers of narrative and a hit of noir.
indieWire
Leo Goldsmith
In 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
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The movie exerts a certain appeal without ever being convincing.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
I wanted Quid Pro Quo to develop into something at every turn, but it just never gels. It's a great 20-page short story that can't sustain 82 minutes of life on the big screen.
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
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.
Observer
Rex Reed
It certainly won't be everyone's cup of breakfast bitters, but you can't dismiss it nonchalantly.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Quid Pro Quo is a respectable feature-film debut for Mr. Brooks, and it remains reasonably thought-provoking without ever becoming emotionally absorbing.
Village Voice
Jean Oppenheimer
Farmiga is captivating, Stahl less so -- although a bigger problem is writer/director Carlos Brooks's script, which sets up one story, then shifts gears into something more personal and psychologically specific.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
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?
Variety
Justin Chang
An exceedingly odd meeting of the minds (and bodies) occurs in Quid Pro Quo, a strikingly original and provocative first feature from scribe-helmer Carlos Brooks.
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