Needle
Needle
Release: 1990-09-12
·Runtime: 83m
·★ 10.0
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Cast
Tim Barlow
as Jack - Danny's Cellmate
Al T. Kossy
as Wino
Pete Postlethwaite
as Paula's Father
John Bennett
as Chief Constable
Noreen Kershaw
as Prostitute
Maureen O'Brien
as Prison Doctor
Jake Abraham
as Greg
Geoffrey Hughes
as Repo Man
Paul Codman
as Arresting Officer
Andrew Schofield
as Chief Vigilante
Kenneth Farrington
as Businessman
Paul Barber
as Drugs Counsellor
Stephen Walters
as Viaduct Boy
Paul Broughton
as Pete - Danny's Cellmate
Carl Chase
as Taxi Driver
Emma Bird
as Paula
Angela Walsh
as Angry Mother
Sean McKee
as Danny
Mark Moraghan
as Binman