Title The Barbarian Invasions Overview In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who 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 entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on. Tagline A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives. Genres Comedy, Crime, Drama Keywords father son relationship, socialism, yuppie, professor, dying and death, cancer, money, university, illness, dying, family conflict, friend Production Companies Pyramide Productions, Cinémaginaire Inc., Téléfilm Canada, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Astral Films, Canal+, Société Radio-Canada, Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles SODEC , Centre National de la Cinématographie CNC Production Countries Canada, France Spoken Languages English, Français Original Language fr Runtime minutes 99 Release Year 2003
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 3 million USD