Needle (1990)

10.0/10 • 83 min • Drama TV 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

Emma Bird

Pete Postlethwaite

John Bennett

Chief Constable

Paul Barber

Drugs Counsellor

Jake Abraham

Greg

Stephen Walters

Paul Codman

Arresting Officer

Andrew Schofield

Chief Vigilante

Angela Walsh

Mark Moraghan

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