Needle
September 12, 1990•1h 23m•★ 10.0
DramaTV 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 courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Director
Gillies MacKinnonWriters
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
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Philip Foster
Rollo
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John Shackley
Stew
Stephen Walters
Viaduct Boy
?
Arthur Kelly
Bent Detective
Paul Codman
Arresting Officer
Andrew Schofield
Chief Vigilante
?
John Conteh
Charlie
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Carleen Ann Lundon
Radio Reporter
Angela Walsh
Angry Mother
Mark Moraghan
Binman
?
Thomas Branch
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