Needle (1990)
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
- Date of release
- 1990-09-12
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Gillies MacKinnon
Casting
- Sean McKee — Danny
- Emma Bird — Paula
- Pete Postlethwaite — Paula's Father
- Anna Keaveney — Council Leader
- John Bennett — Chief Constable
- Paul Barber — Drugs Counsellor
- Gary Mavers — John
- Jake Abraham — Greg
- Andrew Naylor — Degsy
- Philip Foster — Rollo
- John Shackley — Stew
- Stephen Walters — Viaduct Boy
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