Micro Men
Micro Men
Release: 2009-10-08
·Runtime: 84m
·★ 7.1
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
DSP
BBC
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Colin Michael Carmichael
as Jim Westwood
Edward Baker-Duly
as Hermann Hauser
Tim Downie
as Tony Wood Rogers
Rhona Croker
as Valerie
Elizabeth Bower
as Mindy
Sam Phillips
as Steve Furber
Sir Clive Sinclair
as Self (archive footage)
Alexander Armstrong
as Clive Sinclair
James Fleet
as Kenneth Baker
Theo Barklem-Biggs
as Sinclair journalist
Michael Keating
as Derek Holley
Jon Glover
as John Radcliffe
Renny Krupinski
as Foreman
Martin Freeman
as Chris Curry
Peter Davison
as Bank manager
Derek Riddell
as Nigel Searle
James Garnon
as Acorn Journalist
Rasmus Hardiker
as Shop Assistant Luke
Amy Beth Hayes
as Cynthia
Lord Alan Sugar
as Self
