Needle

Original title: Needle

83 minutes • 1990 • 10.0 Score

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.

Gillies MacKinnon

Director

Drama

TV Movie

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