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

00:02:58 Not an amusement arcade!

00:06:01 I was just talking about the importance of elegance in innovative design.

00:09:48 Checkmate.

00:13:15 No, it's not meant to be. It's a brand new-

00:16:35 What sort of business did you say it was?

00:21:20 not just a division, but an entirely new company: Sinclair Computers.

00:24:14 It took Sinclair just nine months to develop the ZX80

00:27:39 It's about computers, that's all.

00:31:25 Whoever gets the licence to produce it, they'll make a fortune.

00:34:46 Assuming you were intending on bidding?

00:37:36 Well, things do seem to be going well.

00:41:25 That's nice. Nigel told me to give you a message -

00:44:23 No, I didn't tell him that you said it was impossible.

00:49:48 Sorry, wrong door. This - that can't be.

00:54:03 We'll meet them head on. Acorn may have their friends in government and at the BBC

00:56:59 Since the Department of Industry launched its multi-million pound Micros In Schools scheme

01:00:29 And then you just delete it by pressing these two buttons here together.

01:03:41 Look - computers are for the common man now.

01:06:51 Right.

01:09:28 At Sinclair Computing, we've recently developed

01:12:04 Harrods. Asda and Dixons might be next.

01:17:00 I'm fine.

01:19:25 Maybe they already have.

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 line01:19:25

Production Record

DirectorSaul Metzstein

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes972