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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780783113944 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, NTSC ISBN: 0783113943 Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Release Date: April 11, 2000 Running Time: 126 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1998 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - the real Gia was not portrayed wellAnjolina Jolie did a wonderful job with this role however the writers took a lot of liberties with Gia's life. Everyone makes her mom seem like the bad guy but Gia's issues ran deeper than the lack of her mother's love like the writers want the public to believe. Gia was most likely bipolar which little was done for or known about in the 80's. Gia was a truly beautiful woman but I would wager that she thought and felt as though she were a man. Today we have a label for what I think she was and ... Read More Rating:  - GiaAlthough a very sad story, this was a really intense, and interesting movie. Angelina lives up to her best performances, as usual. Rating: - anGIAlina jolie Pulls it OffWow Wow Wow. Angelina Jolie really pulls it off in this gorgeously moving biographical role of Gia Carangi, one of the worlds top and late model of the modern era. It's up close and personal. A got to have if your a Jolie fan and for an inside look at model fame. Rating:  - Tour de Force performance by Angelina Jolie, but movie itself has some flawsPersonally, "Gia" is Angelina Jolie's best performance to date. Her raw emotional energy and her method acting provokes the audience to sympathize with Gia Carangi, a supermodel, who self destructs herself because of her difficult upbringing. Her mother left early in Gia's life and her mentor Wilhelmina Cooper dies during her modeling years thus leading to Gia's drug use and eventual death with AIDS, an unresearched disease during that time. Angelina becomes Gia, although the screenplay doesn't follow ... Read More Rating: - GiaFirst shipment was lost somewhere along the way. When I called Amazon, they immediately sent out a replacement. Movie is in perfect condition. |
