Needle

Drama, TV Movie

🏆 Fan Favorite

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Gillies MacKinnon

Status Released

Release Date 1990-09-12

Storyline

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.