3 Needles
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{{Infobox Film
| name = 3 Needles
| image = 3 Needles Poster.jpg
| caption = 3 Needles Promotional Movie Poster
| director = [[Thom Fitzgerald]]
| producer = Thom Fitzgerald, Bryan Hofbauer, Michael Gleissner (exec), Mark Bennett (assoc), Vicky McCarty
| writer = Thom Fitzgerald
| starring = [[Mabel Adams]]<br>[[Shawn Ashmore]]<br>[[Cory Bowles]]<br>[[Stockard Channing]]
| music = Christophe Beck and Trevor Morris
| cinematography = Thomas M. Harting
| editing = Susan Shanks
| covert promo = Scottpatrick J Sellitto
| distributor = WolfeReleasing.com
| released = December 1, 2006
| runtime = 127 minutes
| country =
| language = [[Afrikaans]]<br>[[Mandarin (linguistics)|Mandarin]]<br>[[Xhosa]]<br>[[French language|French]]<br>[[English language|English]]
| budget = est. $2,000,000 US
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
| amg_id =
| imdb_id = 0395424
}}
'''''3 Needles''''' is a 2005 [[drama]]tic film directed by [[Thom Fitzgerald]]. The title, '''''3 Needles''''', refers to the three main characters who make a deal with the [[devil]] in order to survive a global [[epidemic]].
==Plot==
[[Shawn Ashmore]] stars as a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[porn]] star hiding the fact he is [[HIV-positive]]. [[Stockard Channing]] is his mother who learns the truth. [[Lucy Liu]] plays a blood buyer in [[China]] who fails to take adequate precautions with the blood. Finally, [[Olympia Dukakis]], [[Chloë Sevigny]], and [[Sandra Oh]] portray [[nun]]s in [[Africa]] caring for their HIV-infected patients.
==Critical reception==
''3 Needles'' debuted at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]], before showing at countless festivals in [[London]], [[Stockholm]], [[Karlovy Vary]], [[Seattle]], and [[Pusan]]. It made its commercial release in the [[United States]] at the [[New York City]] [[Museum of Modern Art]] on [[December 1]], [[2006]] ([[World AIDS Day]]). Leading up to its U.S. premier, it was heavily promoted by the United Nations Global Media AIDS Initiative. The film won prizes for [[cinematography]] and direction at the Atlantic Film Festival. Fitzgerald was nominated for a Canadian Director's Guild Award for Best Direction of a Feature Film; additionally, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' praised its "exceptional performances".
==Cast==
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor/Actress
! Role
|-
| [[Tanabadee Chokpikultong]]||Tong Sam
|-
|[[Steven Crowder]] || Store Manager
|-
|[[Olympia Dukakis]] || Hilde
|-
|[[Tyson Hall]] || Zulu
|-
|[[Chin Han]] || Soldier Xuan
|-
|[[Lucy Liu]] || Jin Ping
|-
|[[Siv Mbelu]] || Bongile
|-
|[[Shawn Ashmore]] || Denys
|-
|[[Stockard Channing]] || Olive
|-
|Yoyo Chorkreaw || Qi
|-
|[[Sook-Yin Lee]] || Xiu
|-
|[[Sandra Oh]] || Mary
|-
|[[Chloë Sevigny]] || Clara
|-
|[[Ian Roberts (South African actor)|Ian Roberts]] || Hallyday
|}
==See also==
* [[AIDS]]
* [[HIV]]
*[[HIV in Yunnan]]
* [[HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China]]
* [[Gao Yaojie]]
==External links==
*[http://www.3-needles.com Official Website]
*[http://www.artfilmtalk.com/19-thom-fitzgerald/ Art Film Talk #19, Thom Fitzgerald] – interview with director Thom Fitzgerald about the film
*[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/indietopnews.php?id=17694 Detailed interview of Lucy Liu about the film at comingsoon.net (contains plot detail)]
[[Category:AIDS in film and television]]
[[Category:2005 films]]
[[Category:Canadian films]]
[[Category:Drama films]]
[[Category:Films set in Montreal]]
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