History Film / Gia

* MistakenForCheating: When Gia calls Linda, her ex-boyfriend Billy picks up instead. Prompting Gia to act out. Linda clears up this misunderstanding, telling Gia Billy was just moving her things out of their apartment.

* NoBisexuals: Lisa's past hookup with a man named Joe who is openly gay. He doesn't sleep with women. Not that it stopped her.
** In-Universe example. Linda lampshades this when Gia tells her (while quietly dying from AIDS) that she plans to settle down and have some kids. She thinks Gia is going to be straight.

* SingleTargetSexuality: While dying from AIDS, Gia bids goodbye to Linda one last time while telling her that she is her one true love.

* ShowerOfAngst: Gia shakes from her heroin fix, while sharing a shower with Linda.
* ShowerOfLove: Linda shares one with Gia, cleaning her wounds after Gia gets a heroin injection fix.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Gia loves Linda and only Linda.

* YourCheatingHeart: Linda already has a boyfriend when she sleeps with Gia.

* BaitTheDog: Gia seems to choose Linda only to swiftly take the drugs back from her hands and leaves her in tears.

** Linda lampshades this when Gia tells her (while quietly dying from AIDS) that she plans to settle down and have some kids.

* KarmaHoudiniWarrenty: However, since Gia was already infected with AIDS at the time of the rape, it's possible the drug dealer who raped her got infected with it too.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Gia begs Linda to stay with her post coital but Linda still leaves due to various circumstances. Gia also begs her mother to stay with her when the ladder chooses to leave and go back home to her be husband despite her daughter's protests.

* IfItsYouItsOkay: Steffi hooking up with a gay man in the past is this.

* NoBisexuals: Steffi's past hookup with a man named Joe who is openly gay. Not that it stopped her.

** The veiny close-up of the needle Gia uses to inject heroin.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The woman's reaction at Gia's Japanese themes modeling shoot when she complains of nausea.
--> '''Gia:''' I don't feel so good.
--> '''Woman:''' You're not gonna throw up on that dress, are you?

* GuyOnGuyIsHot: During a three-way kiss with two guys, Gia manages to convince the two guys kissing her to kiss each other for possibly this reason.

* ParentalAbandonment: Gia's mother abandons the family after some domestic abuse from her husband, leaving Gia devastated as a child.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Gia begs Linda to stay with her post coital but Linda still leaves due to various circumstances.

--> '''Linda:''' You don't have any clothes on.

* TakeThat: At one point, a group of big-wig fashion industry people are in a meeting being led by someone who is clearly based off of Anna Wintour. Also while looking at photos of various models (which she declares them as "boring", "fat" or even ''"too dumb"''), she then sees a picture of a blonde, smiling model which makes her yell out, "Oh, God! I am so sick of seeing ''her'' face!" She is never identified, but good candidates for the woman could be either Christie Brinkley or Cheryl Tiegs.

* GuyOnGuyIsHot: During a three-way kiss with two guys, Gia manages to get the two guys kissing her to kiss each other for possibly this reason.

* ParentalAbandonment: Gia's mother abandons the family after domestic abuse from her husband, leaving Gia devastated as a child.

* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Gia is more butch in comparison with her lover Linda, who has a feminine look and manner.

* YuriGenre: Gia and Linda's relationship.

* MsFanservice: Gia especially, though Linda also gets naked multiple times. They're shown having sex or showering together and during Gia's nude photoshoot prior to that. Gia also walks naked outside her apartment and is utterly oblivious to the reactions this gets. Angelina Jolie, everybody, give her a hand.

* ButchLesbian: Not too butch but Gia does sport a short haircut and dress androgynous in comparison to her lover Linda.
* CampGay: Some minor unnamed photographers, make-up artists, and fashion deisgners. Being fashion, however, this is probably TruthInTelevision.

* {{Fanservice}}: Gia and Linda's sex scene, Gia's nude photoshoot prior to that, Gia walking around in the nude. Angelina Jolie, everybody, give her a hand.

* LipstickLesbian: Gia's lover Linda, who is a makeup artist and much more feminine in comparison to Gia.

* ParentalSubstitute: Wilhelmina became this to her, which made her death all the more devastating.

* CharacterTitle

The film follows Gia as she moves to New York City to become a fashion model, immediately catching the attention of powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gia's attitude and beauty help her rise quickly to the forefront of the modelling industry, but her persistent loneliness drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs like cocaine. She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda, a make-up artist. However, after a while Linda begins to worry about Gia's drug use, and their relationship starts to fall apart. Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother drive Gia to begin abusing heroin. Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies from complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26.

* TragicAIDSStory: Being about model Gia Marie Carangi, it shows her substance abuse problem and subsequent death from an HIV-infected needle leading to complications from AIDS at the age of 26.

* TragicAIDSStory: Being about model Gia Marie Carangi, it shows her substance abuse problem and subsequent death from an HIV-infected needle leading to from complications from AIDS at the age of 26.

* WindowPain: At one point, Gia smashes the window of Linda's apartment to let herself in.