Needle
★ 10.0·1990·1h 23min·Drama and 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.
- Director
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Original language
- English
- Status
- Released (Sep 12, 1990)
Cast
36 people
Sean McKeeDanny
Emma BirdPaula
Pete PostlethwaitePaula's Father- AKAnna KeaveneyCouncil Leader
John BennettChief Constable
Paul BarberDrugs Counsellor- GMGary MaversJohn
Jake AbrahamGreg- ANAndrew NaylorDegsy
- PFPhilip FosterRollo
- JSJohn ShackleyStew
Stephen WaltersViaduct Boy
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- AKArthur KellyBent Detective
Paul CodmanArresting Officer
Andrew SchofieldChief Vigilante- JCJohn ContehCharlie
- CACarleen Ann LundonRadio Reporter
Angela WalshAngry Mother
Mark MoraghanBinman- TBThomas BranchShop Steward
- SCShane ConnaughtonPrison Governor
Paul BroughtonPete - Danny's Cellmate- TBTim BarlowJack - Danny's Cellmate
- DRDavid RooneyInterviewing Officer
Maureen O'BrienPrison Doctor- BMBunny MayPrison Warder
- VMVincent MaguireCaptain's Mate
- PFPeter FaulknerFerry Passenger
- MSMichael StrobelFerry Engineer
Geoffrey HughesRepo Man- ICIna CloughOld Woman
Noreen KershawProstitute- CDChris DarwinMan at Meeting
Kenneth FarringtonBusinessman
Al T. KossyWino
Carl ChaseTaxi Driver
