Needle

10.0 1990 83 min
Drama TV Movie

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 co…

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Director
Gillies MacKinnon
Writer
Jimmy McGovern

Cast

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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
John Conteh Charlie
Carleen Ann Lundon Radio Reporter
Angela Walsh Angry Mother

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