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Micro Men (2009)

ALL 10/08/2009 (en) Drama 84 Min
  • Release
    10/08/2009
  • Production
    DSP, BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    73.2%
  • Original title
    Micro Men
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.

  1. Saul Metzstein

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Alexander Armstrong

    Clive Sinclair

  2. Martin Freeman

    Chris Curry

  3. Edward Baker-Duly

    Hermann Hauser

  4. Sam Phillips

    Steve Furber

  5. Peter Davison

    Bank manager

  6. Derek Riddell

    Nigel Searle

  7. James Fleet

    Kenneth Baker

  8. Theo Barklem-Biggs

    Sinclair journalist

  9. Tim Downie

    Tony Wood Rogers

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 9 , Crews : 2

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Micro Men (2009) 84 Min

ALL 10/08/2009 (en)
Drama
  • Release 10/08/2009
  • Production
    DSP, BBC
  • Original title Micro Men
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.

  1. Saul Metzstein

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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