Needle

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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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Drama,

TV Movie

Duration:

83 minutes

Year:

1990

Director:

Gillies MacKinnon

Cast:
Sean McKee

Danny

Emma Bird

Paula

Pete Postlethwaite

Paula's Father

Anna Keaveney

Council Leader

John Bennett

Chief Constable

Crew:
Barry McCann

Director of Photography

Clare Douglas

Editor

Gillies MacKinnon

Director

Jimmy McGovern

Writer