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Needle
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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- Sep 12, 1990
- 1h 23m
- English
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Jimmy McGovern
- Released
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