The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
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.
Ratings
TMDB10/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Jimmy McGovernWriter
- Gillies MacKinnonDirector
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
- John ShackleyStew
- Stephen WaltersViaduct Boy