Needle (1990)
1990 · 1h 23m · Drama, TV Movie
Genres: 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 courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Writers: Jimmy McGovern
Cinematography: Barry McCann
Editor: Clare Douglas
Cast
Sean McKee as DannyEmma Bird as PaulaPete Postlethwaite as Paula's FatherAnna Keaveney as Council LeaderJohn Bennett as Chief ConstablePaul Barber as Drugs CounsellorGary Mavers as JohnJake Abraham as GregAndrew Naylor as DegsyPhilip Foster as RolloJohn Shackley as StewStephen Walters as Viaduct BoyMore like this
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