Needle
Movie Top Rated

Needle

10.0 /10 Sep 12, 1990 1h 23m
Drama TV Movie

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.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Watch Now

Top Cast

Sean McKee

Sean McKee

Danny
Emma Bird

Emma Bird

Paula
Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Paula's Father

Anna Keaveney

Council Leader
John Bennett

John Bennett

Chief Constable
Paul Barber

Paul Barber

Drugs Counsellor

Gary Mavers

John
Jake Abraham

Jake Abraham

Greg

Andrew Naylor

Degsy

Philip Foster

Rollo

John Shackley

Stew
Stephen Walters

Stephen Walters

Viaduct Boy