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