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.

Credits

Gillies MacKinnonDirector

Sean McKeeDanny

Emma BirdPaula

Pete PostlethwaitePaula's Father

Anna KeaveneyCouncil Leader