Micro Men

Name: Micro Men
Director: Saul Metzstein
Released: 2009
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly, Sam Phillips, Stefan Butler

2009 · 84 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 972 VOTES · DIR. Saul Metzstein

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 968 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:09 Tonight we're going to paint a picture of success

00:03:01 There is no more research money for the car.

00:06:07 Oh - yes.

00:10:17 CPU... RAM chips... 8-digit LED display...

00:13:26 I wonder why that is?

00:17:00 Tell me again, which college were you at?

00:21:49 as I knew it would be, appealing to a specialist interest

00:24:47 Jesus, it's like trying to read Braille through a pair of gardening gloves.

00:28:08 We are a market leader, but we don't take our position for granted.

00:32:31 Chris.

00:35:31 With him as odds-on favourite?

00:38:40 My name's Susan, and this is Mindy, and Barbara.

00:42:17 Well everyone knows. They're not like us Clive - they don't operate in secret.

00:46:14 What if we move the space bar to here? We could just lose all of this.

00:51:15 Cynthia - I'm not taking any calls. Except from the BBC.

00:55:22 Well, most of them are going to go, Chris

00:58:05 And you're completely fascinated by it?

01:02:16 Saving people a trip to the bank. These things won't save the world!

01:05:00 The QL, or Quantum Leap, represents just that in the home and business computer market.

01:08:13 Well employ more people on the job!

01:10:46 is being played by the companies themselves

01:13:05 Jesus.

01:18:32 And just before the weather - and you'll like this Barry -

01:23:47 Subtitled by Matt Westcott http: //matt. west. co. tt/ - @westdotcodottt

Cast & Characters

Alexander Armstrong Clive Sinclair Martin Freeman Chris Curry Edward Baker-Duly Hermann Hauser Sam Phillips Steve Furber Stefan Butler Roger Wilson Colin Michael Carmichael Jim Westwood Derek Riddell Nigel Searle Rhona Croker Valerie Amy Beth Hayes Cynthia Nicola Harrison Ann Sinclair

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed968

Dialogue density11.5 lines / min

First line00:00:09

Final line01:23:47

Production Record

DirectorSaul Metzstein

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes972