- HD 1080
- Runtime: 106m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France
- Director: Dany Boon
- Stars: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Anne Marivin
- keywords: jealousy, clock tower, provence, southern france, lie, postman, mama's boy, bias, local speciality, relocation, prejudice, cultural difference, job transfer, northern france, bell tower, postal worker, hospitality, community spirit, dialect, small community, wine drinking, unhappy marriage, social prejudices, accents, disability fraud
- Production_studio: TF1 Films Production, Hirsch, Les Productions du Chicon, CNC, Centre Régional des Ressources Audiovisuelles (CRRAV), CinéCinéma, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Canal+, Pathé, Renn Productions
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- The Welcome to the Sticks is featured in the top rankings of 2008
- #69 in Top Comedy Movies of 2008
- #43 in Top Romance Movies of 2008
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...