Needle (1990)

09/12/1990 (GB) • 1h 23m

Drama, TV Movie

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Pete Postlethwaite

Paula's Father

Anna Keaveney

Council Leader

John Bennett

Chief Constable

Paul Barber

Drugs Counsellor


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

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