First Trailer for Prime’s The Sticky Unveils Jamie Lee Curtis’ Maple Syrup Heist Comedy
Inspired by a real-life heist that made global headlines in 2012, which resulted in the theft of a prodigious amount of Canadian maple syrup valued at more than $18 million, comes Amazon Prime Video’s comedy crime caper The Sticky, a Coen brothers-esque reimagining of those sordid events, when an entire nation feared for what they would slather on their pancakes and waffles. The series from executive producer and guest star Jamie Lee Curtis just released its first trailer today, which you can view below.
The Sticky is a collaboration between Prime Video and Blumhouse Television, from showrunners Brian Donovan and Ed Herro of American Housewife. It’s a six-episode limited series, following Margo Martindale’s Ruth Landry, “a tough, middle-aged syrup farmer who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves.” According to the series logline, “She teams up with the hot-tempered Bostonian mobster (Chris Diamantopoulos), and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard (Guillaume Cyr) to carry out a multi-million-dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus.” Sounds like an aspirational good time in breaking bad, if you ask us. The trailer evokes the attack on Nancy Kerrigan at one point, and that feels like an apt comparison, as this particular tone of dark comedy and mounting errors among incompetent criminals does remind one of director Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya in particular.
Of course, The Sticky also stars Jamie Lee Curtis to some extent, although the trailer saves her appearance for the capper, and we can’t help but assume that this indicates more of a glorified cameo role than anything. Curtis has been riding a wave of career retrospective appreciation ever since appearing in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and was prominently featured once again in season three of FX’s The Bear. Her Comet Pictures is producing The Sticky, which appears to have potentially cast Curtis as some kind of high-level mobster figure.
Regardless, all six episodes of the charming-looking series will be hitting Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 6, 2024. In the meantime, you can check out the first footage of The Sticky below.