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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 388
Released: August 24, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
It's late 70's New York. Studio 54 designer jeans drugs and disco. This is the outrageous breathtaking story of the first fashion super-model - her rise to the top and her fall caught up in a whirlwind of drugs sex and celebrity.Running Time: 126 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359154027
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:
Good Movie 
2008-06-02 - The Item was in perfect condition, as expected.
The movie is good, somehow slow, but good
IT'S ONLY ME BUT: 
2008-06-01 - A MOVIE ABOUT THE LIFE OF SUPER MODEL GIA JOLIE IS EXCELLENT. THE DRUG USE, LESBIAN LOVES, DEPRESSION, IT IS SO SAD. SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND DRUGS DESTROYED HER AND MEN USED HER. JM
Great movie....completely underrated
2008-04-09 - The depth of talent in Angelina Jolie, is exhibited more in this movie, than any other I've seen her in...She is a great actress.
Greatest Angelina Jolie Movie Ever!!!
2008-04-07 - After watching this film, Angelina Jolie's performance proved to me she is undoubtedly the greatest actress in the world now. Never has she given a more complex, emotional, memorable, and sexy performance as she does in Gia. Never have I seen her act more natural in a film as well. This movie is a must have!!!
Angelina Jolie as a Model, and a great story
2008-03-21 - Angelina Jolie as model Gia. This is a very good film, with a great story, and Angelina is fantastic. I am unfamiliar with the original model and the biography of Gia, but I loved this film. Since Hackers, I've watched anything with Angelina Jolie, and she seems right for the character portrayed. I doubt that many actresses would have pulled off the "hooked" scenes as well as Jolie.
