Over several months between 2011 and 2012, a group organized the theft of several tons of maple syrup. This episode inspired “Sweet Scam” (“The Sticky“), the new Amazon Prime Video series, which revealed its first trailer.
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Starring the Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale (“BoJack Horseman”, “Dexter”) the production is made up of six episodes that will cover the case that took 18 million dollars in maple syrup from the national reserves of Quebec, Canada.
Martindale plays Ruth Landry, “a middle-aged maple syrup farmer who returns to crime when bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves,” as the synopsis teases.
Along the way, he teams up with a Boston mobster with an explosive temperament (Chris Diamantopoulos) and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard (Guillaume Cyr) to organize the robbery to protect what he considers to be his.
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The series features the special participation of Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis, who is also an executive producer for Comet Pictures (with associate producer Russell Goldman); alongside Jonathan Levine and Gillian Bohrer of Megamix, Jason Blum, Chris Dickie, Jeremy Gold and Chris McCumber of Blumhouse Television; and Michael Dowse. Lauren Grant; with Josée Vallée and Bruno Dubé of Sphere Media, Inc.
Jamie Lee Curtis produces and makes a special appearance in “Dulce Estafa.”
The creators, executive producers, creative heads and writers of “Dulce Estafa” are Brian Donovan and Ed Herro. It premieres on December 6 on the Prime Video platform.