Year:
1998
Studio:
HBO Pictures/Citadel Entertainment
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
1/5
Teaser
The rise and fall of Gia Marie Carangi (Angelina Jolie), the first
bad-girl sultry super-model, who rose to prominence around 1980 and
ended up dying of AIDS in 1986. Gia was a girl who just wasn't
satisfied with life. She was self-destructive and a rebel, had a rocky
lesbian relationship with Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), and contracted
AIDS through heavy drug use. It's ultimately a sad story of a girl who
didn't quite fit in.
Movie
This is a made-for-cable movie told in a sort of documentary style.
They do the one-on-one interviews with people who knew her (keeping in
mind that they're all actors). There are occasional voice-overs from
Gia's diary. And then there is the movie that runs in between.
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Actors
I remember this movie being a big deal for HBO and Angelina Jolie was
still a relative unknown back then. I've said it before and I'll say it
again, she's very good playing troubled women. Mercedes Ruehl plays
Kathleen, Gia's mother. I know it wasn't meant to be sympathetic and
Ruehl played it well. Faye Dunaway is the other name actress, playing
Wilhelmina Cooper, head of one of the big modeling agencies at the time.
DVD
The movie is shown in television format. Cast biographies and pictures
are the only extras.
Recommendations
If you want to see Angelina Jolie act or at least topless this is the
movie for you. Other than that it's a bit too dark for my tastes so I
can't really recommend it. |