Gia

Gia, or more correctly Gia Marie Carangi, is a young girl from Philadelphia who was talent spotted by a photographer at a tender age of 17. The HBO movie is about her life as a supermodel.

Gia moved from Phili to New York and was signed up by a powerful model agent Wilhelmina Cooper. From a unknown little girl, Gia was thrown into the spotlight to become a supermodel. In fact, she set the standard of the highly profile life of a supermodel.

Life is not a bed of roses for the glamorous one. Her loneliness and constant fear of being abandoned by her loved ones caused to her to heave into the arms of drugs, which eventually led to her downfall. She passed away with AIDS at a young age of 26.

The movie is very well-scripted, tantalising, erotic as well as emotional. You go through the motions of Gia's high and low of her career as a model as she parlays the moment. Angelina Jolie who played Gia has done a darn good job. She has the wild side as well as the feminine side of Gia. The only disappointment I have will be that Angelina look a little too old for the role of a teenager and at the same time, she doesn't have the innocent charm of a young girl which Gia possessed.

Rating: 4 out of 5 fairy clouds. This 1998 HBO movie is still its punch. A pretty decent girl's movie as they will sympathise and empathise with Gia while the guys will probably enjoy the tantalising erotic seduction of Gia.