Quid Pro Quo

Helpful Note: Wikipedia definition: Quid pro quo (Latin for "something for something") indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services. Carlos Brooks makes an impressive debut as both writer and director of this little independent film QUID PRO... Full review

Movie about an odd, underground segment, the intellectually passive version of Cronenberg's Crash. People who want to be crippled from the waste down and confined to a wheelchair. It is more than that. It's set within a mystery as to whether... Full review

"Quid Pro Quo" is about handicapped reporter Isaac (Nick Stahl) as he's given an odd story - people who wish to be handicapped. His investigation leads him to Fiona (Vera Farmiga), a capable woman who wishes she could be in a... Full review

Really a strange story. Issac being disabled due to an accident in his childhood, in which he not only lost his parents but also his freedom to walk and being confined to wheelchair. Film opens up with Issac shown as radio... Full review

Vera Farmiga (playing 'Fiona') and Nick Stahl (bringing 'Isaac' to life) get two endlessly interesting characters thrown their way by first timer Carlos Brooks, and they know what to do with the material. Fiona's part's the most fleshed out and she... Full review

I liked "Quid Pro Quo," a LOT. Do NOT be put off by the subject matter; that's just "local color" for a good, old-fashioned mystery, one that opens up" into not only revelation, but self-revelation. For those who like mystical mysteries,... Full review

I saw this film on the closing night of Sundance, mostly because all the other films I wanted to see were sold out. I'm glad I went. Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga dance adeptly around and through the film's premise, which... Full review

The result is a frustrating blue-ball effect-Quid Pro Quo arouses a lot of interests, but it satisfies none of them. Perhaps the single most annoying aspect of Quid Pro Quo is that I learned more about "transabled" culture from page one of a Google search than I did during all 82 minutes of Brooks' film, and he's admitted in at least one interview that he never actually spoke with a wannabe. ... Full Review

After I figured out what it meant, I loved it - "Quid pro quo, Claaaaaarice" sounded so menacing and powerful - but couldn't squeak it out without blushing. It's one of the many lines that could have been played for comedy, but, sadly, are to be taken seriously. ... Full Review

the early scenes of uncomfortable discovery marvelously....a film of questionable taste....The performances are brave and eyes-wide-open, finding the glue that holds the movie together when the script stumbles to take it all in..... ... Full Review

Carlos Brooks's Sundance entry "Quid Pro Quo" involves a bizarre subculture of able-bodied people who fervently hope and pretend to be paralyzed. While most group members decline his interview requests, Fiona (Vera Farmiga) agrees to satisfy Issac's curiosity in exchange for his firsthand account of what it really feels like to be disabled � hence the title. ... Full Review

Skip it: "Quid Pro Quo" might work if it was really about what it's really about, but its too-tricky script has too many paths that lead nowhere. Paraplegic radio reporter Isaac (Nick Stahl) discovers a story with a personally relevant twist: able-bodied people who want to be paralyzed, from those looking for happiness or sexual fulfillment to those who may actually pay doctors to cut off their limbs. ... Full Review

It sounds like one of David Cronenberg 's yucky fantasies: A wheelchair-bound reporter explores a subculture of able-bodied people who yearn to be paralyzed, crippled, even limbless. ... Full Article

Given its pitch-black subject matter, you'd expect "Quid Pro Quo" to take a quick nose dive into something dank and lurid, never to emerge. Instead, writer-director Carlos Brooks and stars Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga do something unexpectedly moving with... ... Full Article

The first half of Quid Pro Quo is among the most jaw-dropping things Ive ever seen: Who knew there was a closeted subculture of people pretending to be paraplegics? ... Full Article

June 13, 2008 TO say "Quid Pro Quo" - a pitch-black comedy set in a subculture of New Yorkers who yearn to lose the use of their limbs - is not for all tastes is perhaps the understatement of the... ... Full Article

If you were a fan of David Cronenberg's "Crash," based on J.G. Ballard's book about people who get sexually excited by auto accidents, you might just be the target audience for "Quid Pro Quo," a perverse psychological drama about able-bodied... ... Full Article

Vera Farmiga & Nick Stahl in film about weird subculture in 'Quid Pro Quo.'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. ... Full Article