 Gia 1998  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Cristofer
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Michael Cole, Kylie Travis, Louis Giambalvo, John Considine, Scott Cohen, Edmund Genest, Mercedes Ruehl, Faye Dunaway, Holly Baker, Joe Basile, Rick Batalla, Lombardo Boyar, Jullian Dulce Vida
This made-for-cable TV biography stars Angelina Jolie as supermodel Gia Carangi. Arriving in NYC shortly after high school, Gia soon becomes an extremely popular model. She starts a lesbian affair with her photographer's assistant, Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), and begins a life of drug addiction that results in a downward spiral, which includes AIDS. She died in 1986 at the young age of 26. The film received an Emmy Nomination and Angelina Jolie won a Golden Globe Award.
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New Best Friend 2002  R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams
Cast: Mia Kirshner, Dominique Swain, Taye Diggs, Meredith Monroe, Glynnis O'Connor, Oliver Hudson, Rachel True, Joanna Canton, Scott Bairstow, Eric Michael Cole
College student Alicia (Mia Kirshner) is easily influenced by sorority sisters (Dominique Swain, Meredith Monroe, and Rachel True), and when Alicia overdoses on cocaine, Sheriff Artie Bonner puts the trio at the top of his investigation.
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Outrage 1998  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Cast: Rob Lowe, Jennifer Grey, Eric Michael Cole, Shane Meier, Cyrus Thiedeke, Kathryn Harrold, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Jerry Wasserman, Fulvio Cecere, Colin Lawrence, Robert Wisden, Jennifer Clement, Bob Morrisey, Lesley Ewen, Christine Willes
A trio of teens breaks into insurance salesman Tom Casey's (Rob Lowe) car, and Tom calls the police. But the teens are well-connected, get just a slap on the wrist, and now start to intimidate Tom and his pregnant wife (Jennifer Grey). Weak made-for-TV thriller.
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Trash 1999 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Anthony Galluzzo
Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Jaime Pressly, Grace Zabriskie, Jonathan Banks, Daniel Joseph, Charles Venturi, Marisa Ryan, Veronica Cartwright, Brian Krause
Another coming-of-age film hits the screen with this one set in poverty-ridden trailer parks in Florida. Two friends (Jeremy Sisto and Eric Michael Cole) deal with the death of a mutual friend in different ways.
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| 1. Gia (1998)
2. New Best Friend (2002)
3. Outrage (1998)
4. Trash (1999)
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