Quid Pro Quo

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

And as preposterous as some of "Quid Pro Quo'' may be, it has a firm grasp of many issues, both personal and public, that the disabled face. Stahl and Farmiga create wounded, angry and yet hopeful souls, complete characters who know that reaching out can cause great injury, too, yet proceed to do so. ... Full Review

This is a startling and promising debut film by Brooks.....The trouble is the movie isn't daring enough..... ... Full Review

Quid Pro Quo" seems better suited to the stage, where static theatricality might emphasize the horror within....Books doesn't want to make a film of questionable taste, but a mild psychological study buttoned with a faint, effective plot twist.....the film remains an engrossing offering of oddness....the film is a compelling sit, brought to life by two very crafty, pointed performances.....Quid" nails the early scenes of uncomfortable discovery marvelously, promising a lurid decent into unspeakable desires ... Full Review

For the first half hour, Quid Pro Quo flirts with the kind of sexual perversity that fueled Crash , David Cronenberg's lurid 1996 film about a subculture of auto-erotics.....Farmiga is captivating, Stahl less so-although a bigger problem is writer/director Carlos Brooks's script, which sets up one story.... ... Full Review

bleakly humorous romantic character study, Quid Pro Quo is appealingly offbeat until its narrative takes a wayward detour into pat simplifications.....Quid Pro Quo goes limp, in large part....dynamic isn't upheld by his film, which reciprocates early interest in Isaac and Fiona's circumstances by wrapping things up with tame neatness..... ... Full Review