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 as Danny
- Emma Bird as Paula
- Pete Postlethwaite as Paula's Father
- Anna Keaveney as Council Leader
- John Bennett as Chief Constable
- Paul Barber as Drugs Counsellor
- Gary Mavers as John
- Jake Abraham as Greg
- Andrew Naylor as Degsy
- Philip Foster as Rollo