Needle

Name: Needle
Cast: Sean McKee, Emma Bird, Pete Postlethwaite, Anna Keaveney, John Bennett

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Gillies MacKinnonWriter: Jimmy McGovern

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

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