Needle
Sep 12 1990
•1h 23m
•Drama, TV Movie
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
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Sean McKee
Danny
Emma Bird
Paula
Pete Postlethwaite
Paula's Father
Anna Keaveney
Council Leader
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