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