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Gia is a 1998 American biographical drama television film about the life and times of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Gia and Faye Dunaway as Wilhelmina Cooper, with Mercedes Ruehl and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney.
In December 2013, it was announced that distributor Tribeca Film had picked up the film for distribution, and it was released theatrically on May 9, 2014. [14] [15] The film was released on DVD in the United States on September 9, 2014. [16] In May 2019, Coppola began filming Mainstream, for which she co-wrote the script with Tom Stuart.
Gia Marie Carangi [2] (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American supermodel, considered by some to be the first supermodel. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2023, Harpers Bazaar ranked her 15th among the greatest supermodels in the 1980s. [ 5 ]
Gaia is a 2021 South African horror thriller film produced and directed by Jaco Bouwer from a screenplay by Tertius Kapp. It stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Alex van Dyk, and Anthony Oseyemi . It had its world premiere at South by Southwest in the United States on 16 March 2021.
For her performance in the title role of fashion model Gia Carangi, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Film. [8] Jolie was in Pushing Tin (1999), a critical and commercial failure; however, her next film, The Bone Collector (1999), emerged as a commercial success.
The Last Showgirl is a 2024 American drama film directed by Gia Coppola and written by Kate Gersten. It stars Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Billie Lourd, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, and Kiernan Shipka.
Palo Alto is a 2013 American drama film written and directed by Gia Coppola, based on James Franco's 2010 short story collection of the same name.The film stars Franco alongside Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff and Zoe Levin.
The life of Gia Carangi, who through her addiction to heroin contracted, and died of AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26, was also the subject of the HBO-produced docudrama Gia, starring Angelina Jolie. AN AMERICAN GIRL: The Self-Destruction of Gia was shown at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival .