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!

Mihai Toma Gia, a rebellious young girl sets out to accomplish her dream of becoming a model thus moving from Philadelphia to New York. She had it in her hand due to her beauty and charisma but her lifestyle and her wrong decisions is what ultimately led to an unstoppable decline. Her drug abuse left her without money, friends and even family and without anybody to stand for her when she needed the most, the crude and painful ending was imminent.It's a biography which very explicitly presents many delicate moments from Gia's life, her humble beginnings, her career's climax and its fall. Although very dramatic and emotional, it was boring most of the time while the course of events was too predictable to induce any thrill or suspense. Like one girl from the movie said, it's hard to feel sorry for someone who had everything because of her beauty and threw it all away without any remorse, killing any relationship with her loved ones, forever.

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)

Mohak Garg Gia Carangi, this is the name of America's first supermodel (considered to be) who was featured on the cover of VOGUE magazine was also a drug addict who ended up tragically when she acquired AIDS.This move is of a narrative style based for cable picture and revolves around this pretty girl portrayed by Angelina Jolie.Gia is a simple girl who had a troubled childhood with issues between her mom and dad and her drifting away from her brothers (what the movie tells us) and grew up to develop a punk like personality who lives in her own world and is quiet happy about it.Here the story takes a turn when some random events (which are not explained properly) makes her join the fashion industry and she eventually becomes a supermodel. Here the connection between her career as a model and her childhood seemed broken, so it confuses the viewer (believe me that is not what the viewer wants from this movie).The later story is well shown telling about the drug addiction of the model, her downfall and her ending tragically after acquiring AIDS. This was something that most of the stories about models have.Yes I would say that the story was great but story is not the only thing that makes a movie great it is the acting and I would have to say this that Angelina Jolie was flawless, I know that this movie is being talked mostly for Jolie being showed nude and the lesbian sex scene but this has got way more than that. Jolie displayed the right amount of emotions and she really made the viewer connect to the character. Linda Gia's lover portrayed by Elizabeth Mitchell very well supported the main character and showed a good chemistry with Jolie which provided weight to the relationship.The quality of video is not really good, so if you expect HD you'll be disappointed.I would say that this movie is worth spending 120 minutes of yours.-