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Needle
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.
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
Details
- Director
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Released
- September 12, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 10.0 / 10 from 2 votes
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