Gia

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Gia

R,

1998,

2h 0m,

Drama/

LGBTQ+

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Gia Carangi (Angelina Jolie) travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway), a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modeling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs -- and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.

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Akos Peterbencze

Vulnerable Man (Medium)

Jul 20, 2023

Gia is a mediocre biopic with no explanation about why the fashion industry drives its models into burnout, eating disorders, and drug abuse. We get that it’s an artificial industry, but the movie doesn’t provide a detailed look into why that is.

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Brendan Lemon

The Advocate

May 19, 2022

Quite watchable.

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

Jan 5, 2022

4/5

A film about a woman's meteoric rise to fame, made shortly before Jolie's own career went stratospheric, this is a widely overlooked production that shows the incredible breadth of the actor's talent.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jun 23, 2005

3/5

Jon Niccum

Lawrence Journal-World

May 18, 2005

4/5

Caffeinated Clint

Moviehole

May 6, 2005

3/5

Jolie gives a sensational performance in this tight, but tragic biopic

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George S

Jul 23, 2018

Angelina Jolie is hypnotizing , stunning performance from her as aways. Interesting story of the rise and fall of a super model at her peak

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George G

Apr 17, 2018

Its gets so hard to watch because the film draws you into the tragedy of the story.

Sep 24, 2017

FAVORITE MOVIE, BOOK, PERSON EVER!!!

Theodore W

Jul 24, 2017

Good story, horrible film. Editing at times almost made it unwatchable. The film is a cluster of scenes from start to finish with little cohesion. Angelina is good.

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Hagrid R

Feb 15, 2017

Despite not always finding the right tone between documentary and biopic, Gia features one of Angelina Jolie's strongest early performances.

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Ron S

Jan 23, 2017

This is a good movie about Gia the model. I think AJ did a good job but did not capture Gia's essence of a tomboyish but feminine beauty. She got most of her craziness down but looked nothing like Gia. Some in accuracy's Gia had brown eyes, contacts aren't expensive. The wig was horrible. The photo shoot with her arms behind her back was not too cover her track marks the photographer said it was too make her arms look slimmer. Also, the editing was pretty bad...in some cases played the same clips next too each other. The sexy sax got pretty repetitive. It is a really sad story.

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Michael Cristofer

Director

Angelina Jolie

Gia Carangi

Elizabeth Mitchell

Linda

Kylie Travis

Stephanie

Mercedes Ruehl

Kathleen Carangi

Faye Dunaway

Wilhelmina Cooper

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Synopsis

Gia Carangi (Angelina Jolie) travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway), a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modeling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs -- and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.

Director: Michael Cristofer
Producer: James D. Brubaker
Production Co: HBO Pictures
Rating: R, TV-MA (S|L|V)
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 4, 2016
Runtime: 2h 0m

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