Its the late 70s in new york - studio 54 designer jeans drugs & disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or any woman - she wants. Sex money glamour fame..Its all within her reach. Shes a goddess. Shes a star. Her name is gia. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Starring: Angelina Jolie Mercedes Ruehl Run time: 120 minutes Rating: Ur
There's a reason why Cindy Crawford was dubbed "Baby Gia" when she first hit the modeling scene. Indeed, Crawford, now the world's best-known supermodel, greatly resembled model Gia Carangi, who went from high school to the cover of British Vogue in less than two years. Carangi appeared on many more covers of Vogue (French, British, Italian, and American) and Cosmopolitan before dying of complications from AIDs (she was an IV heroin user) in 1986. Now most people recognize Carangi's name from this powerful HBO film that stars Golden Globe-winner Angelina Jolie, who comes by her talent honestly. Jolie is the daughter of veteran actor Jon Voight, and her own training as a model serves her well--she has the moves. Throughout, she's heartbreaking--as no doubt the real Carangi was--effective, and stunning.
With good source material (Stephen Fried's A Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia), Jolie's stunning performance, and strong directing by Michael Cristofer, the movie goes beyond the merely sensational. The script was cowritten by Cristofer and novelist Jay McInerney, whose Bright Lights, Big City covers similar territory. As a cautionary tale, Gia works. But to watch Jolie in her character's tragic self-destruction is utterly compelling. --N.F. Mendoza
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GIA:
Dvd in great condition on arrival, Came before the expected delivery date as promised, And as i say in every review, I will definately be shopping with amazon again!
Gia-Maudlin Melodrama:
Essentially this is a movie about one of many models chewed up and spit out by the fashion industry. With all the reviews written about the plot I'll skip to the review. The intro to this 1998 HBO TV movie says that Gia Carangi "In the early eighties...became a legend in the fashion industry." In real life, she is barely a footnote in the fashion industry. Michale Gross, in his 1995 book "Model," the most exhaustive and exhausting of all books on the fashion industry dismisses her as "a bisexual... more info
Realistic portrayal of America's first Supermodel:
This movie is not for the faint-hearted. No happy endings here. Just alot of edgy,powerful acting. It is the story of a young girl from Philadelphia who makes it big as a model in NYC and the viewer gets to see her evey step of teh way. Angelina Joile is fabulous in her portrayal of Gia Carangi-a supermodel from the late 1970s-early 1980s era-whose rise to the top of the modeling world is almost as fast as her descent into drug addiction which ultimately was her undoing. But what makes this HBO... more info
the real Gia was not portrayed well:
Anjolina Jolie did a wonderful job with this role however the writers took a lot of liberties with Gia's life. Everyone makes her mom seem like the bad guy but Gia's issues ran deeper than the lack of her mother's love like the writers want the public to believe. Gia was most likely bipolar which little was done for or known about in the 80's. Gia was a truly beautiful woman but I would wager that she thought and felt as though she were a man. Today we have a label for what I think she was and that is... more info
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