Gia

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Synopsis: It's the late 70's in New York - Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or any woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame...it's all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the cover of a magazine. She's a goddess. She's a star. Her name is GIA.
When Gia Carangi (Angelina Jolie) first arrives in New york, she's a beautiful drop-out from Philadelphia brashly bursting through the closed doors of top modeling agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway). Gia's electrifying peronality 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 loved by one - an unfulfilled desire that can take Gia to dangerous places. And fora beautiful woman at the top, one slip could lead to a terrifying fall.

Rating: Unrated

Run Time: 125 Minutes

Director: Michael Cristofer

Dvd Extra's: Photo Gallery, Subtitles: English, French, Spanish. Nudity Factor: Opens with guys butt, Angelina Jolie's butt and topless with another woman topless during photo shoot and then love scene followed by more of Angelina in the morning, Girl in bar topless see some crack, guys butt again, Angelina and Elizabeth Mitchell in shower, see butts and breasts.

Of Note: Gia passes a billboard showing a phone number with the area code 718. Area code 718 was not introduced to New York until 1985.

Review by: Jason James Rating:

This film is suppose to be about the life of Gia Carangi but it is more about drug abuse, HIV, and loss. The first half of the movie is good and kept me interested. The second half not so much. It actually drags on and on about all the negative things drugs did to Gia. It become less about her life and more about her death and all the problems she had. It my opinion it should have been more about her life and you put a 15 minute segment at the end on how the lifestyle she lived destroyed her. I do have to credit Angelina Jolie for her role in this film as Gia. She is very convincing in the role. Having said that Angelina Jolie is not enough to make this movie a great movie. Actually Angelina is the only reason to even think about watching this movie. Overall I didn't care for the story as it was presented and won't watch this movie again.