Please don't spend money on this.

Instant Favorite.

A Major Disappointment

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Although Gia Carangi's biography was good enough to make this movie, I felt as if Angelina Jolie wasn't good representation of Gia. The thing about Gia wasn't just physical beauty that got too emphasized in this movie, but Gia's eyes that showed her vulnerability. This movie lacks a real emotion, that pain which is crucial to make it really work. Angelina is beautiful and she's got some bad girl attitude that helped the movie but she lacks emotion and vulnerability. Mila Kunis showed more emotion playing young Gia than Angelina did. Also Gia's mother played by Mercedes Ruehl wasn't even close to Gia's real mother Kathleen, not only by appearance but by character as well. This movie should be called "Drug addict-supermodel", not "Gia". All it showed is that even beautiful girls get ruined by fashion world. It didn't show a real emotional suffering, real childhood traumas (which in Gia's case were sexual abuse and abandonment by her mother caused by divorce of her parents). It's like seeing somebody's present without really going in depth about their past that made them feeling hurt and abandoned.

I am always blown away by these in depth reviews..mine will always be as short as I can make them. IMDb requires 10 lines. RME. I don't have that much to say about this movie or any movie I don't think. Gia was a decent movie. I love AJ she did a great job, I had not heard of this super model of course I looked her up while I was watching this movie. I saw this movie quite some time ago. I suppose it is possible she would have been big if she had not passed but I don't think she was that big, still it was a good story. I need more lines to make 10. I need more lines to make I need more lines to make 10.I need more lines to make 10.I need more lines to make 10.I need more lines to make 10.

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?)

I bought the DVD The self-destruction of Gia. It interviews her mother friends other models and the main photographer who took her pictures. It's sad how we judge people on their looks. I've been living with HIV going on 28 yrs and to look at me you would never know. But people only see the outside and don't look any further. The make up artist said her skin was so flawless that she didn't even need makeup. You can see real pictures of her on the internet. They only wanted her for her looks.When you only want what's on the outside then that's all you'll get. There's more to people than what's on the outside. Because the truth of matter is every one get's old. My parent's have been married 54 yrs but they see each other as when they met.