Jamie Lee Curtis

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Amazon Orders Canadian Maple Syrup Heist Series 'The Sticky ... (Variety)

Amazon has commissioned a new Canadian original comedy series titled "The Sticky," Variety has learned.

With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead and an aging and Mike Byrne, a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate—and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup. The series will begin filming in Montreal this fall. It revolves around Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity.

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Amazon Orders Series Based on Real-Life Maple Syrup Heist (Hollywood Reporter)

Titled The Sticky, the project is being produced through the company's Canadian originals division and is based on a 2011 robbery of more than $18 million ...

With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead and an aging Mike Byrne, a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate—and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup.” The Fargo-ish story centers on Ruth Clarke, “a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. “This story, about an unassuming band of renegades who managed to pull off perhaps the largest heist in Canadian history, caught our attention immediately,” the showrunners said in a statement.

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