Needle

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Needle

10.0(1 votes)
1990
1h 23m
DramaTV Movie

Overview

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

Sean McKee

Sean McKee

Danny

Emma Bird

Emma Bird

Paula

Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Paula's Father

Anna Keaveney

Council Leader

John Bennett

John Bennett

Chief Constable

Paul Barber

Paul Barber

Drugs Counsellor

Gary Mavers

John

Jake Abraham

Jake Abraham

Greg

Andrew Naylor

Degsy

Philip Foster

Rollo

Written by

Jimmy McGovern

Jimmy McGovern

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