Gia - 1997

Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father's diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS, one of the first women in America whose death was attributed to the disease. In between, she followed a downward spiral of drug abuse and failed relationships.

Gia, a spirited, rebellious teenager from Philadelphia, moves to New York City and becomes a successful model. However, drug addiction and emotional instability caused by her relationship with her narcissistic mother brings her career and ultimately her life to a cataclysmic end.

Película basada en la vida de Gia Marie Carangi, una supermodelo de los años 70. Originaria de Philadelphia, Gia llega a la ciudad de Nueva York para convertirse en modelo y pronto impresiona a la agente Wilhelmina Cooper. Su extrema belleza y su carencia de prejuicios para posar desnuda la convierten en una estrella. Gia inicia una aventura amorosa con su fotógrafa, Linda, pero ella tiene novio y se encuentra insegura acerca de su bisexualidad.

ORIGINAL TITLE :: TÍTULO ORIGINAL     Gia
YEAR :: AÑO     1997
RUNNING TIME :: DURACIÓN     118 min.
COUNTRY :: PAÍS     USA  ::  Estados Unidos
DIRECTOR :: DIRECTOR     Michael Cristofer
SCREENWRITER :: GUIÓN     Michael Cristofer & Jay McInerney
COMPOSER :: MÚSICA     Terence Blanchard
CINEMATOGRAPHER :: FOTOGRAFÍA     Rodrigo García
CAST :: REPARTO     Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Faye Dunaway, Eric Michael Cole, Kylie Travis, Mercedes Ruehl, Holly Baker, Louis Giambalvo
STUDIO/PRODUCER :: PRODUCTORA     HBO




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