Needle

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.

• Gillies MacKinnonDirector
• Jimmy McGovernWriter

• 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