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