Needle
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
Cast
Maureen O'Brien
Prison Doctor
John Bennett
Chief Constable
Paul Barber
Drugs Counsellor
Sean McKee
Danny
Paul Codman
Arresting Officer
Mark Moraghan
Binman
Emma Bird
Paula
Pete Postlethwaite
Paula's Father
Carl Chase
Taxi Driver
Geoffrey Hughes
Repo Man
Jake Abraham
Greg
Andrew Schofield
Chief Vigilante
Angela Walsh
Angry Mother
Stephen Walters
Viaduct Boy
Paul Broughton
Pete - Danny's Cellmate
Kenneth Farrington
Businessman
Al T. Kossy
Wino
Noreen Kershaw
Prostitute