Sep 24, 2003
99 min
Full-HD

The Barbarian Invasions (2003)

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

Category

Comedy Drama

Country

Canada France

Companies

Astral Films Société Radio-Canada SODEC Téléfilm Canada Pyramide Productions Cinémaginaire CNC Canal+ Alliance Atlantis Vision Globale

Rémy Girard

Rémy

Stéphane Rousseau

Sébastien

Marie-Josée Croze

Nathalie

Dorothée Berryman

Louise

Louise Portal

Diane

Dominique Michel

Dominique

Pierre Curzi

Pierre

Yves Jacques

Claude

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