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Title: Gia (TV Movie 1998)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Angelina Jolie | ... | Gia Carangi | |
| Elizabeth Mitchell | ... | Linda | |
| Eric Michael Cole | ... | T.J. | |
| Kylie Travis | ... | Stephanie - Model | |
| Louis Giambalvo | ... | Joe Carangi | |
| John Considine | ... | Bruce Cooper | |
| Scott Cohen | ... | Mike Mansfield | |
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Edmund Genest | ... | Francesco (as Edmond Genest) |
| Mercedes Ruehl | ... | Kathleen Carangi | |
| Faye Dunaway | ... | Wilhelmina Cooper | |
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Holly Baker | ... | Emergency Room Nurse |
| Joe Basile | ... | Disco Doorman Tony | |
| Rick Batalla | ... | Hispanic Stylist Phillipe | |
| Lombardo Boyar | ... | Hood #2 | |
| Jullian Dulce Vida | ... | Hood #3 (as Julio Dolce Vita) | |
When Gia Carangi first arrives in New York City, she's a beautiful drop-out from Philadelphia brashly bursting through the closed doors of top modeling agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gia's electrifying personality and potent sexuality soon find their way onto the covers of America's top-selling magazines. But being loved by the world isn't the same as being love by one - an unfulfilled desire that can take Gia dangerous places. And for a beautiful woman, one slip could lead to an untimely and terrifying downfall. Written by HBO Home Video
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This movie turned out to be a very unexpected favorite of mine. Angelina Jolie stars as the late Gia Marie Carangi, an Italian American woman who rose from a humble Philidephian beginning to worldwide fame as the first known "supermodel", and whose short-lived career spanned from the late seventies to the early to mid eighties. Jolie is super-impressive as she portrays the highs and lows of Gia's fame: strutting through a crowd of admirers, the look on her face saying, "I'm GIA, and you're nobody!"; endulging in glamour drug of the moment, cocaine; fiercely proclaiming her love for Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), right in front of Linda's boyfriend; tearfully begging her visiting mother (Mercedes Ruehl) to stay with her, then hurling obscenities at her while throwing her baggage out of the apartment; and quietly and gracefully accepting the most tragic news about her health, just as she's finally getting her life on track. This movie deals very frankly with Gia's sexuality and there is some nudity and scenes of sexuality, but looking past the sex and the drugs and the tough exterior she displayed (especially when someone took her knife away from her), you see a very lost, fragile person. Gia is almost childlike in her disillusionment about the fashion industry, and you feel it in the way she fantasizes about a "normal" life with children, the way she feels like people regard her as a "piece of meat" with no brains, and the way she is so truly hurt by a fellow model calling her hateful names in a jealous rage. I think this movie is something that should be seen by people of all ages, regardless of its sexual content, because it carries a strong anti-drug message as well as a touching story we can all identify with even if a lot of us are not blessed with the kind of glorious physical beauty Gia was blessed with.