Needle

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

Top cast

Sean McKee

Danny

Emma Bird

Paula

Pete Postlethwaite

Paula's Father

A

Anna Keaveney

Council Leader

John Bennett

Chief Constable

Paul Barber

Drugs Counsellor

G

Gary Mavers

John

Jake Abraham

Greg

A

Andrew Naylor

Degsy

P

Philip Foster

Rollo

J

John Shackley

Stew

Stephen Walters

Viaduct Boy

A

Arthur Kelly

Bent Detective

Paul Codman

Arresting Officer

Andrew Schofield

Chief Vigilante

J

John Conteh

Charlie

C

Carleen Ann Lundon

Radio Reporter

Angela Walsh

Angry Mother

Mark Moraghan

Binman

T

Thomas Branch

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