Needle
movie
Released September 12, 1990
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
as
Danny
Emma Bird
as
Paula
Pete Postlethwaite
as
Paula's Father
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Anna Keaveney
as
Council Leader
John Bennett
as
Chief Constable
Paul Barber
as
Drugs Counsellor
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Gary Mavers
as
John
Jake Abraham
as
Greg
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Andrew Naylor
as
Degsy
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Philip Foster
as
Rollo
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John Shackley
as
Stew
Stephen Walters
as
Viaduct Boy
