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Gia
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783117522
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783117523
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: D91390D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1998
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Gia
Although a very sad story, this was a really intense, and interesting movie. Angelina lives up to her best performances, as usual.
Rating: - anGIAlina jolie Pulls it Off
Wow Wow Wow. Angelina Jolie really pulls it off in this gorgeously moving biographical role of Gia Carangi, one of the worlds top and late model of the modern era. It's up close and personal. A got to have if your a Jolie fan and for an inside look at model fame.
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