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Needle

Gillies MacKinnon

1990 • 1h 23m

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 th...

Needle

Cast

Sean McKee

Sean McKeeDanny

Emma Bird

Pete Postlethwaite

Pete PostlethwaitePaula's Father

Anna KeaveneyCouncil Leader

John Bennett

John BennettChief Constable

Paul Barber

Paul BarberDrugs Counsellor

Gary MaversJohn

Jake Abraham

Jake AbrahamGreg

Andrew NaylorDegsy

Philip FosterRollo

John ShackleyStew

Stephen Walters

Stephen WaltersViaduct Boy

Arthur KellyBent Detective

Paul Codman

Paul CodmanArresting Officer

Andrew Schofield

Andrew SchofieldChief Vigilante

Crew

Gillies MacKinnon

Gillies MacKinnonDirector

Jimmy McGovern

Jimmy McGovernWriter

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