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.
Top cast
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
Arthur Kelly
Bent Detective
Paul Codman
Arresting Officer
Andrew Schofield
Chief Vigilante
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 12, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Original language
- EN
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