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Needle

1990
Directed byGillies MacKinnon
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 the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.

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Sean McKeeDannyEmma BirdPaulaPete PostlethwaitePaula's Father
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Anna KeaveneyCouncil Leader
John BennettChief Constable
Paul BarberDrugs Counsellor
Gary MaversJohn
Jake AbrahamGreg
Andrew NaylorDegsy
Philip FosterRollo
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DramaTV Movie
STATUSReleased
RATING
10.0

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