Film

3 Needles

2005 · 2h 7m · Drama

IMDb

6.3

Rotten Tomatoes

36%

Metacritic

48

A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety

Chloë Sevigny

Clara the Novice

Shawn Ashmore

Denys

Stockard Channing

Olive Cowie

Lucy Liu

Jin Ping

Olympia Dukakis

Hilde

Simone-Elise Girard

Waitress Who Serves the Porn Actor

Chin Han

Soldier Xuan

Sandra Oh

Mary the Nun

Sook-Yin Lee

Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife

Tyson Hall

Rapist

Pierre Leblanc

Eggs Benny Guy

Steven Crowder

Depanneur Manager

Caroline Aspirot

Stripper

Rob Burns

Broker

Yotaka Cheukaew

Qi, the Rice Farmer's Daughter

Isabelle Cyr

Canadian Health Care Worker

• Thom FitzgeraldDirector · Producer · Writer
• Thomas M. HartingDirector of Photography
• Christophe BeckOriginal Music Composer
• Trevor MorrisOriginal Music Composer
• Mark BennettCasting

3 Needles - Trailer

Release date

September 9, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 7m

Rated

PG

Genres

Drama

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