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.
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- Addiction
- Bleak ending
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Cast
- Sean McKeeDanny
- Emma BirdPaula
- Pete PostlethwaitePaula's Father
- Anna KeaveneyCouncil Leader
- John BennettChief Constable
- Paul BarberDrugs Counsellor
- Gary MaversJohn
- Jake AbrahamGreg
- Andrew NaylorDegsy
- Philip FosterRollo
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- Gillies MacKinnonDirector
- Jimmy McGovernWriter
- Barry McCannDirector of Photography
- Clare DouglasEditor
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