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