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Needle
1990 · Movies · Drama, TV Movie
bittersweet
Addiction or relapse
How it ends
John defeats the killers but suffers significant personal loss and comes to terms with his father's actions.
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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.
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Cast & Crew
Cast
Emma Bird
Paula
Pete Postlethwaite
Paula's Father
Anna Keaveney
Council Leader
John Bennett
Chief Constable
Paul Barber
Drugs Counsellor
Gary Mavers
John
Jake Abraham
Greg
Andrew Naylor
Degsy
Crew
Gillies MacKinnon
Director
Jimmy McGovern
Writer