Needle (1990)

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.

Cast

Viaduct Boy
Bent Detective
Arresting Officer
Chief Vigilante
Radio Reporter
Angry Mother
Shop Steward
Paula's Father
Prison Governor
Pete - Danny's Cellmate
Jack - Danny's Cellmate
Interviewing Officer
Prison Doctor
Prison Warder
Captain's Mate
Ferry Passenger
Ferry Engineer
Council Leader
Old Woman
Prostitute
Man at Meeting
Taxi Driver
Chief Constable
Drugs Counsellor

Crew

Director of Photography