Movie Info
Novelist Jay McInerney and playwright Michael Cristofer (who also made
his feature film directorial debut) collaborated on the script for this
bio of doomed supermodel Gia Carangi. In a star-making performance,
Angelina Jolie stars as Gia, a gorgeous Philadelphia native who arrives
in New York City to become a model and immediately makes an impression
on high-powered agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway). Gia's fierce
good looks make her a star, as does her willingness to pose nude. Gia
becomes
entangled in a passionate
affair with a photographer's assistant, Linda (Elizabeth Mithcell), but
Linda is more conflicted about her bisexuality, driving Gia away and
fueling the model's craving for mood-altering drugs. Failed attempts at
reconciliation with both Linda and her mother Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl)
drive Gia further over the edge from cocaine to heroin, her emaciated
body and sunken eyes becoming the catalyst for the "heroin chic" look.
Although Gia is eventually able to kick her powerful habit, she learns
that an infected needle has resulted in her contracting the AIDS virus.
For the second year in a row, a made-for-TV film resulted in an Emmy
nomination and a Golden Globe victory for Jolie (the first was George
Wallace, 1998).
IMDB: 6.8
Tomatoes: 92%
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