Drama ·TV Movie · United Kingdom · 1990 · 1h 23m

Needle

Needle poster
Director
Gillies MacKinnon
Cast
Sean McKee as Danny Emma Bird as Paula Pete Postlethwaite as Paula's Father Anna Keaveney as Council Leader John Bennett as Chief Constable Paul Barber as Drugs Counsellor
Crew
Barry McCann — Director of Photography Clare Douglas — Editor Jimmy McGovern — Writer
Synopsis

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.

Key Collaborators
Gillies MacKinnon Director Barry McCann Director of Photography Clare Douglas Editor Jimmy McGovern Writer
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