Gia (Unrated Edition)
by Michael Cristofer
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Actor: Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Michael Cole, Kylie Travis, Louis GiambalvoDirector: Michael Cristofer
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition
Running Time: 126 minutes
Release Date: 2000-04-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Studio: Hbo Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Gia (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: Gia-Maudlin Melodrama
Summary: 2 Stars
Essentially this is a movie about one of many models chewed up and spit out by the fashion industry. With all the reviews written about the plot I'll skip to the review.
The intro to this 1998 HBO TV movie says that Gia Carangi "In the early eighties...became a legend in the fashion industry."
In real life, she is barely a footnote in the fashion industry. Michale Gross, in his 1995 book "Model," the most exhaustive and exhausting of all books on the fashion industry dismisses her as "a bisexual drug abuser who had a short but visible career."
As you can quickly tell from the sole opening credit (Angelina Jolie, of course) this movie is an Angelina Jolie vehicle. The problem is that this vehicle sputters throughout due to overwrought dialogue and acting which ties nicely back into the overwrought intro.
With her post-lip, pre-nose job plastic surgery Angelina Jolie looks remarkably similar to Katie Holmes at certain angles.
This type of movie-making reminds one of the old gangster movies of the '30's and '40's. It purports to be a warning of the dangers of its subject while maximally exploiting it; in this case with nudity instead of guns.
The two hour length of the movie is more tortuous than Angelina's death scenes.
Two stars, one for each attractive boob, real or not.
Summary of Gia (Unrated Edition)
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
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