Needle

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.

Cast

Sean McKee

Danny

Emma Bird

Paula

Pete Postlethwaite

Paula's Father

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Anna Keaveney

Council Leader

John Bennett

Chief Constable

Paul Barber

Drugs Counsellor

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Gary Mavers

John

Jake Abraham

Greg

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Andrew Naylor

Degsy

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Philip Foster

Rollo

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John Shackley

Stew

Stephen Walters

Viaduct Boy