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3 Needles

60

123 minutes – Drama
Release date: April 14, 2006
Canadian distributor: Seville Pictures

How does an epidemic begin? Could it be as simple as three tiny needles? In this story peopled by international actors we meet Clara, a Novice nun working in South Africa. She has made it her mission to convert rapidly dying Africans to Catholicism before it is too late. She strays from her mission and becomes embroiled in a futile struggle to help a family of orphans, and puts her own redemption at risk. In China, Jin Ping (Lucy Liu, pictured above) sets up her mobile blood collection service in the tiny village of Tonghu, and the local peasants rejoice and prosper. Not long after, however, a farmer’s wife and daughter mysteriously die. The farmer sets out on a journey across the province to find out why, but receives little interest from the government. He returns to find his entire village overwhelmed with disease, and Jin Ping’s blood collection business vanished into thin air. In North America, Denny, a second-rate porn actor, passes his monthly blood test by stealing samples from his geriatric father. When he gets caught, his poverty-stricken family can barely cope. Exhausted by her own bad luck, Denny’s mother Olive develops a plan to escape their grinding economic hardship.

3 Needles, movie poster

Crew:

Producer:

Thom Fitzgerald

Executive Producer:

Michael Gleissner

Associate Producer:

Mark Bennett
Brad Hovath

Director:

Thom Fitzgerald

Screenwriter:

Thom Fitzgerald

Cinematographer:

Tom Harting

Editor:

Susan Shanks

Composer:

Christophe Beck
Trevor Morris

Cast: Roles:

Mabel Adams
Shawn Ashmore
Stockard Channing
Cory Bowles
Olympia Dukakis
Lucy Liu
Siv Mbelu
William Mtakati
Nancy Nomankantsh
Sandra Oh
Sarah Polley
Sook-Yin Lee
Ian Roberts
Chloë Sevigny
Anile Solwandle
Marc Trottier
Gary Farmer
Roc LaFortune
Jesse Gabe

Nahmnru
Denny
Olive
Amos
Hilde
Jin Ping
Bongile
Fater Dahmnu
Mounhera
Mary
Donna Cherry
Xiu
Hallyday
Clara
Hohtu
Randy

Porn Director
Waitress