Gia is a turkey.
Gia is a 1998 biographical HBO film about the life and times of one of America 's first supermodels , Gia Marie Carangi . The film stars Angelina Jolie as Gia and Faye Dunaway as Wilhelmina Cooper , with Mercedes Ruehl and Elizabeth Mitchell . The original music score was composed by Terence Blanchard . By tradition , the head of the Vietnamese family ( Vietnamese : gia đình or nhà ) is the husband , named gia trưởng .