GIA

Gia is a 1998 dramatic film about the life of bisexual drug-abusing supermodel Gia Marie Carangi. It stars Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mercedes Ruehl, Eric Michael Cole, and Kylie Travis, among other actors. The film was written by Jay McInerney and Michael Cristofer, and directed by Cristofer.

Plot summary

Gia Marie Carangi ia 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. 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, but Linda is more concerned about her bisexuality, driving Gia away and fueling the model's craving for mood-altering drugs. Failed attempts at reconcilation with both Linda and her mother Kathleen drive Gia further over the edge from cocaine to heroin, her emanciated body and sunken eyes become 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. In 1986, Gia Carangi died of complications resulting from the virus.

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