Needle

Name: Needle
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1990-09-12
Duration: 83 min
Cast: Sean McKee, Emma Bird, Pete Postlethwaite, Anna Keaveney, John Bennett

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1990 · 83 min · Drama · TV Movie · TMDB 10.0/10

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.

Directed by Gillies MacKinnon

Cast

Sean McKee — Danny
Emma Bird — Paula
Pete Postlethwaite — Paula's Father
Anna Keaveney — Council Leader
John Bennett — Chief Constable