UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Jackson Booth-Millard I will be completely honest, I wanted to watch this movie because Family Guy: Blue Harvest recommended it, and I already knew the leading actress gets naked in it, but I did hope for a good overall movie as well. Basically it is the fact-based story of Gia Carangi (Golden Globe winning Angelina Jolie), a beautiful dropout from Philadelphia who moved to New York to become a top fashion model. Eleven-year-old Gia (Mila Kunis) had a troubled childhood, with her Italian father Joe (Louis Giambalvo) and mother of Irish and Welsh ancestry, who had a violent and unstable marriage. At age seventeen, Gia was working at her father's diner, then she managed to brashly burst through the doors and catch the attention of powerful modelling agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Golden Globe winning Faye Dunaway). Gia's electrifying personality, attitude, potent sexuality and beauty help to rise quickly to the forefront of the modelling world, she soon finds her way onto the covers of top-selling American magazines. But Gia becomes persistently lonely, and after the death of Wilhelmina she experiments with mood-altering drugs, including cocaine. Gia becomes entangled in a passionate affair with makeup artist Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), this begins when they pose naked and make love to each other after the shoot. After a while Linda becomes concerned about Gia's excessive drug use, she gives her an ultimatum, but Gia chooses drugs, Gia fails any reconciliation with Linda and her mother Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl). Gia is driven to start abusing the use of heroin, although she does break her drug addiction habit after much effort, she has already contracted the HIV virus, most likely from a needle containing infected blood, this progresses to full blown AIDS. Gia spends the remainder of her life in hospital, until her death on November 18, 1986, at the age of twenty-six, she was one of the first famous women to die of the disease. Also starring Kylie Travis as Stephanie and Eric Michael Cole as T.J. At the time when she a rising star, Jolie is gorgeous, in and out of clothes, and gives a marvellous performance as the model who had great successful until it ended in her tragic downfall, you can tell the film is made for TV, it does look like a softcore porn movie with the sexual scenes, but it an interesting dark and provocative biographical drama. It was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. Angelina Jolie was number 74 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, and she was number 1 on The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols. Worth watching!

ankur_sardana Gia leaves a mark on the viewer. I know nothing about the real Gia (pardon my ignorance) but I could feel her in Jolie. I think she has acted superbly, probably she identified with Gia. The interviews of people who knew Gia actually weren't enacted that well and seemed a little made up. But in Gia, one finds the traces of that wild -tender friend, which I guess we all have. The movie falls into the category (though at a lower rank) of 'Trainspotting' and 'Requiem for a Dream'. The portrayal of the female love and the way Gia wants to be the man is quite nicely shown. I just wish that the movie had no interview format and had let Gia to tell her own story. (8 September 2006)

Dalbert Pringle FYI - Gia Carangi (Who!?... Never heard of her) was not (as this movie states) America's first "Supermodel".To be honest (until this depressing and annoyingly-bad movie came out), I had never, ever heard of Gia Carangi. But I'd certainly heard of Jerry Hall, Christie Brinkley, Cybill Shepherd, and Lauren Hutton, who were all recognized "Supermodels" long before this bimbo snorted her first line of cocaine.If this badly-conceived bio-movie was really supposed to be an accurate depiction of what Gia Carangi was actually like in real-life, then I'd say that she was, without a doubt, just pure white-trash, and an absolutely terrible role-model for lesbian-wannabes, as well.And if I am to take Angelina Jolie's grate-on-your-nerves portrayal of Gia at face value, then, let's face it, this high-strung crybaby was already seriously unhinged long before her downward spiral into the hell of drug addiction took place.And speaking about Angelina's f-n lousy performance as Gia - Jolie (wearing one awful-looking wig after another) was such an incompetent, scenery-chewing amateur throughout (pulling knives on people, etc.) that her character depiction made me hate Gia's guts.I also hated all of the women in Gia's life. This, of course, included her mother, Kathleen, her mentor, Wilhelmina Cooper, and especially her lesbian lover, Linda (this particular on/off relationship was nothing but a hideous, little soap opera of non-stop bitching & bickering).And, with that said - I am absolutely fed-up from hearing people heap praise and admiration upon Angelina Jolie for her performance as Gia. If you ask me, it was one of the most empty-headed, insincere, and unconvincing portrayals I've ever seen.And I swear that I'll never, ever again watch another movie that stars the likes of Angelina Jolie. Never! (Bah! Who needs her?)

Kelli Jones I am currently watching the movie Gia. This model had a hard life, especially when she entered the fashion world, however falling into the life of drugs, etc. was her choice. They are trying to make it into a sad movie, but I have no sympathy for people who choose to go down the drug path in life. People have choices, and she created her own fate. This obviously happened a long time ago being that it is a 1980's movie. There are a lot of famous people whether in the fashion world or not that don't do drugs just because they know it is stupid. It was sad to hear about her mentor dying, and how her mom remembers her tough life, as well as her female friend.