Needle

Drama · 1990

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.

Starring

Gillies MacKinnon, Sean McKee, Clare Douglas, Emma Bird, Pete Postlethwaite, Jimmy McGovern, Anna Keaveney, Barry McCann, John Bennett

Director

Gillies MacKinnon