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'Quid Pro Quo'

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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. Cronenberg might have told this tale with lots of queasy gore, but first-time writer-director Carlos Brooks turns "Quid Pro Quo" into something else: a finely observed, compelling drama with the creepy tinge of a thriller....

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