Needle
10
2 votes
September 12, 1990
1h 23m
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.
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Where to watch
In United States
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Cast
Sean McKee
Danny
Emma Bird
Paula
Pete Postlethwaite
Paula's FatherA
Anna Keaveney
Council Leader
John Bennett
Chief Constable
Paul Barber
Drugs CounsellorG
Gary Mavers
John
Jake Abraham
GregA
Andrew Naylor
DegsyP
Philip Foster
RolloJ
John Shackley
Stew
Stephen Walters
Viaduct BoyA
Arthur Kelly
Bent Detective
Paul Codman
Arresting Officer
Andrew Schofield
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