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What's ten more minutes?

posted 16 years ago by RitchCS
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As good as "Quid Pro Quo" is, as a movie, I feel cheated putting out nine or ten bucks to see a movie that lasts one hour and twelve minutes. The deleted scenes add ten more minutes PLUS it addes two more needed characters and a different but happier ending to the movie. I know this was Carlos Brook's first film but WHY do first time directors think they have to make an art film for a debut? Some stories DO have happy endings. The best ending on the DVD was deleted. Just 10 more minutes would have doubled the box office intake. Was it Carlos' or the editor's fault by deleting the better ending. Whoever did it should have his left leg cut off!

[–] MovieInYourFace 16 years ago

Who says a movie is supposed to be 90 minutes? That's just what you've been conditioned to watch. I think the filmmakers do a good job of telling the story arc and I don't feel cheated at all.

[–] billr1953 15 years ago

I watched it on the streaming Netflix, so didn't get to see any deleted scenes. Would have like to have fleshed out the ending if that's what was in them.

Can you describe what happens?

‘And throughout all Eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.'

[–] lulupalooza 11 years ago

My understanding is that the "happy ending" to which you are referring is that his ex-girlfriend (Raine) takes him back. I am SO HAPPY to NOT have seen that ending. It makes a very superficial statement that she will accept his as a spouse now that he has use of his legs.

[–] gmoxie 9 years ago

I just watched the DVD with the deleted scenes. My interpretation is that she always loved Isaac but had been afraid of having two disabled people living together; she didn't accept that they could take care of each other (and even children) given both were in wheelchairs. She thought she was being realistic when she broke it off.

She then became engaged to a man who was willing to do anything for her and in her eyes, he could fully take care of her because he was not bound to a wheelchair -- she THOUGHT this was what she wanted. Then she realized she didn't love him and would never be happy in that situation. I think she broke it off with her fiance before she found out Isaac was recovering. I am filling in the blanks but I assume she called Isaac to say she wanted to get back together, having matured and realized that they could make it work even though they were both in wheelchairs. I think it was only when they got back together that she found out he could walk again.

I wish they had included those deleted scenes. That would have been a good ending.