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