Gia

Gia Carangi goes from Philadelphia to New York and quickly becomes one of the most recognisable models of the eighties. Her relationship with the makeup artist Linda, the speed of the career and the drugs all run in the same period. She gets clean and by then has contracted HIV through intravenous use. Michael Cristofer directed and wrote it with Jay McInerney. Angelina Jolie plays Gia, with Faye Dunaway, Mercedes Ruehl and Elizabeth Mitchell in the cast. Terence Blanchard wrote the score. It was made for HBO and aired on 31 January 1998 on a 7.9 million dollar budget. Eighty-eight percent of 16 Rotten Tomatoes reviews are positive. The Kalamazoo Gazette wrote that Jolie gives it her all in a thoroughly uninhibited and highly effective portrait. Jolie won the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award for it. The film took multiple Emmy nominations and wins, including Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing. Who it is for: viewers who like the fashion world and stories about addiction, and anyone who wants to see Jolie's breakthrough. Who it is not for: anyone wanting distance. The decline is shown in detail and the last stretch is hard to watch.