The Barbarian Invasions (2003)

7.1/10 99 min Comedy Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

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

Isabelle Blais

Sylvaine

Markita Boies

Nurse Suzanne

Micheline Lanctôt

Nurse Carole

Denis Bouchard

Duhamel

Sylvie Drapeau

Second Lover

Dominic Darceuil

Maxime

Yves Desgagnés

Olivier

Gilles Pelletier

Priest Raymond Leclerc

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