
The Barbarian Invasions
A comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.
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Release Date
9/24/2003Runtime
99 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
$8,000,000Revenue
$34,883,010Homepage
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A darkly comic meditation on death and what we leave behind, following a dying professor's final gathering of old friends and estranged family. It's funny and sad in equal measure, finding both humor and grace in the approach of the end.
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Rémy Girard
Rémy

Stéphane Rousseau
Sébastien

Marie-Josée Croze
Nathalie

Dorothée Berryman
Louise

Louise Portal
Diane Leonard

Dominique Michel
Dominique St. Arnaud

Pierre Curzi
Pierre Citrouillard

Yves Jacques
Claude

Marina Hands
Gaëlle

Sophie Lorain
First Lover

Johanne-Marie Tremblay
Sister Constance Lazure

Mitsou Gélinas
Ghislaine
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