Gia movie

Movie based on the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s.

It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney.Plot summaryGia Marie Carangi is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model and immediately catches the attention of powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gias beauty and willingness to pose nude help her rise quickly to the forefront of the modeling industry, but her persistent loneliness drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs like cocaine. She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda, a makeup artist, but when Linda begins to worry about how their relationship might reflect on her, she breaks off their affair.

Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother Kathleen Carangi drive Gia to begin abusing heroin. Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a contaminated needle and dies of complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26..

All Gia trailers available on youtube

Gia Cast

• Edmund Genest
• Elizabeth Mitchell
• Eric Michael Cole
• Faye Dunaway
• Holly Baker
• Joe Basile
• John Considine
• Jullian Dulce Vida
• Kylie Travis
• Lombardo Boyar
• Louis Giambalvo
• Mercedes Ruehl
• Rick Batalla
• Scott Cohen