Needle 33 years old

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

Needle Cast

Name Character
Pete Postlethwaite He was 44, 64 years old when he died
Paul Barber He was 39, now 73 years old
Andrew Schofield He was 31, now 65 years old
Gary Mavers He was 26, now 59 years old

Needle Crew

Name Department
Gillies MacKinnon as Director. He was 42 (now 76) years old Directing
Jimmy McGovern as Writer. He was 41 (now 74) years old Writing
Needle poster
Needle (33 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, September 12, 1990
  • Runtime: 83 minutes