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List Price: $12.97 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 1362
Released: August 24, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
IT'S THE LATE 70'S IN NEW YORK - STUDIO 54, DESIGNER JEANS, DRUGS & DISCO. ONE GIRL IS LIVING LIFE IN THE FAST LANE. SHECAN HAVE ANY MAN - OR ANY WOMAN - SHE WANTS. SEX, MONEY,GLAMOUR, FAME...IT'S ALL WITHIN HER REACH. SHE'S A GODDESS. SHE'S A STAR. HER NAME IS GIA.
Description of Gia (Unrated Edition):
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
Gia (Unrated Edition) Reviews:
Suzanne 
2009-12-19 - Really good movie about the life of Supermodel Gia. Angeline Jolie's performance was excellent and touching at times and brought Gia back to life in this emotional and sometimes sad story of Gia's life and tragic death. The movie touched me long after I was done watching the movie and made me feel really sad that someone so beautiful, could feel so unloved and alone. It made me think harshly towards the people involved in the fashion industry and made me feel that they at times are no bettter then the people who are involved in the buying and selling that takes place in underground of human trafficing.
Besides the obvious this turned out to be a good movie 
2009-10-26 - I bought it for obvious resones, but was surprise at the fact I thought it was a good movie.
Sad true life tale
2009-10-12 -
Sad true life tale of a young girl full of dare and adventure backed with little intelligence and few self preservation skills.
Drawn to modelling because her beauty. And Destroyed by her own lack of self control and careless excess. Gia (Unrated Edition)
Angelina Naked
2009-10-11 - This is a relationship story in the beginning. This is a fall-from-grace Tragedy at the end. It is a voyeur film in the sense that the thrill is in the watching much more than in following along as the story unfolds, especially once the transition from the early relationship to the long, long fall begins. The more successful the model becomes the more she is manipulated and the more she succumbs to the destructive extravagance available to her.
Review of the movie Gia
2009-09-05 - Angelina Jolie does an excellent acting job in Gia. She shows depth and an understanding of the problems faced by a young woman who is suddenly thrust into the world of high fashion.
