The Barbarian Invasions

A comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.

Plot Summary

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.

7.1 /10

2003

CA

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dying and death

parent child relationship

yuppie

professor

socialism

friends

money

cancer

university

illness

dying

family conflict