Needle (1990)

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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 & Crew

Director
Gillies MacKinnon
  • Profile picture of Emma Bird
    Paula Emma Bird
  • Profile picture of Pete Postlethwaite
    Paula's Father Pete Postlethwaite
  • Profile picture of John Bennett
    Chief Constable John Bennett
  • Profile picture of Paul Barber
    Drugs Counsellor Paul Barber
  • Profile picture of Jake Abraham
    Greg Jake Abraham
  • Profile picture of Stephen Walters
    Viaduct Boy Stephen Walters
  • Profile picture of Paul Codman
    Arresting Officer Paul Codman
  • Profile picture of Andrew Schofield
    Chief Vigilante Andrew Schofield

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