📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
2009-10-08
⌚ Running Time:
84 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
7.32
Beloved Cast
Clive Sinclair
Alexander Armstrong
Chris Curry
Martin Freeman
Hermann Hauser
Edward Baker-Duly
Steve Furber
Sam Phillips
Bank manager
Peter Davison
Nigel Searle
Derek Riddell
Kenneth Baker
James Fleet
Sinclair journalist
Theo Barklem-Biggs
Tony Wood Rogers
Tim Downie
Roger Wilson
Stefan Butler
Jim Westwood
Colin Michael Carmichael
Valerie
Rhona Croker
Cynthia
Amy Beth Hayes
Ann Sinclair
Nicola Harrison
Norman Hewett
Anthony Smee
Derek Holley
Michael Keating
John Radcliffe
Jon Glover
Foreman
Renny Krupinski
Acorn Journalist
James Garnon
Shop Assistant Luke
Rasmus Hardiker
Shopper
Alison Dowling
Susan
Perdita Avery
Mindy
Elizabeth Bower
Self (archive footage)
Sir Clive Sinclair
Self
Lord Alan Sugar
Cambridge Graduate (uncredited)
James Corker
David Johnson-Davies (uncredited)
Jason Fitzpatrick
Clapper Loader - Sinclair QL Commercial (Nicht genannt)
David Mahoney
Rick Dickinson (uncredited)
Mark Mansfield
Nick Toop (uncredited)
Rob Mcloughlin
Reporter (uncredited)
Cal O'Connell
Pub Landlady (uncredited)
Sophie Wilson
