Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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?)

shahpalang Well, I did not know Gia Carangi before I watch this movie. Now, I know her partial bio and how she looked like in reality. Choosing Angelina Jolie was a brilliant idea. she is so illustrious and glamorous that can well depict all the beauty and glamor Gia had. she might have even surpassed the true thing based on images I saw from the true Gia. Well, the movie depicts the viewpoint of several closest people to Gia: her mother, her girlfriend and colleague, her boyfriend and a later friend, and her photographer (or manager maybe). Clearly, everyone of these people want to emphasize their rule in Gia's life and show their own importance to some extent. For example, it is always Gia that asks for her girlfriend love and it is never the opposite. Her girlfriend is depicted as very wise , kind, forgiving, and willful opposite to Gia's insecure, addict, turbulent and immature personality in the relationship. In several occasions Gia begs for love or forgiveness from her girlfriend. Similarly, her mother portrays herself as a way that Gia begs her not to go home and leave her. She goes to her mother whenever in trouble. How accurate is that? We have seen the disaster of over- protective mothers as depicted by Darren Arnofsky in black swan. Given that Gia is dead and can not correct made up and inaccurate and biased stuff, I guess this is the best material the director had to make the movie.Still, there are some things that all these people tend to agree on which makes them true with high probability. Gia was a very active, energetic, and straightforward girl. Despite these traits, she was very fragile personally and strongly dependent on close friends. She needed a lot of attention and affection specially from her mother and girlfriend. This is shown through her emotional scenes when her mother or girlfriend want to leave her or when her manager is dying. She is addicted to heroine and gets infected by aids through a used needle. she died at 26. Her mother mentions that when she died and they tried to lift her to take for burial part of the flesh on her back sort of fell to the bed. That sounds terrible and even horrible. I have heard of crack victims dying like that but not aids victims. Some nice quotes from the movie. When the photographer takes several pictures of the three girls behind the chain he says "ok! lets stop photography and make some art now! lose the clothes, keep the chain!". This sentence is very nice. Two of the girls leave immediately. Gia's response is also amazing. pointing to the girl that later became her girlfriend she says "I will stay if she does!". Another, rather sad, quote is when she learns she is infected with aids. she tells her then friend and previous boyfriend "God has some nice plans for me, but not in this world". As another observation, she always seems to be short of money while she should be making a lot in the show business. she asks both her mother and girlfriend for money in the movie. the funniest is when her boyfriend visits and she is mad because she thinks someone stole her money. Then she offers her ex-boyfriend to have sex with him for money. This part reminded me of Tara Reid in The Big Lebowski when she tells Jeff Bridges "I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars" and then pointing to his servant she says "he can't watch though or he should pay a hundred". Another final point about this movie is Angelina's brazen poses in nude and flashing her breasts in several scenes. I guess Brad Pitt is not very proud of that but I should hail Angelina and say "good going girl! keep up all the good work!you are just so damn beautiful!". After all, the circle of drug addiction, depression, and disentangling of life is a trait of those actors, singers, models, etc that come to fame pretty soon and become globally popular at a young age. I guess Gia's story is more dramatic because it ended with her death at the young age of 26. Besides her pictures on magazine covers, her short life story will stay with us forever through this movie made in her memory.