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.
- Released
- 1990-09-12
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Gillies MacKinnon
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Sean McKee as Danny
- Emma Bird as Paula
- Pete Postlethwaite as Paula's Father
- Anna Keaveney as Council Leader
- John Bennett as Chief Constable
- Paul Barber as Drugs Counsellor
- Gary Mavers as John
- Jake Abraham as Greg
- Andrew Naylor as Degsy
- Philip Foster as Rollo
- John Shackley as Stew
- Stephen Walters as Viaduct Boy