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starring: Melanie Griffith, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan, Lee Richardson, Mia Saradirected by: Sidney Lumet
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302629217
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302629217
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: July 08, 1997
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 15453
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 17, 1992
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I really like this movie
I really enjoyed this movie. I saw part of it previously on TV. Before purchasing, read reviews at Amazon, positive, middle and negative. The movie is not perfect and has weakness, but its strengths vastly outweighed weaknesses for me. I thought that many of the actors including Ms. Griffith did an outstanding job. Highly recommended.
Rating: - A Film I watch over and over.
A Great movie. I watch this over and over! A good intro to Chassidic Brooklyn.
Rating:  - Stranger Among Us
I received the movie in a timely matter, pretty fast actually. I really enjoy this movie.
Thank you so much for the immediate response and delivery. I would order again.
Sincerely,
Mona Ghaffari
Rating: - Stranger in a Strange Land
The film is played to emphasize the culture clash between Hasidic Jewish culture and familiar modern America with it's lose of family and structure--unfortunately at the expense of believable plot at times. New York cop Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith) showing up to speak to a Hasidic Jewish Rabbi in a short skirt seems hardly likely. Nor is she a believable cast as a hardboiled cop with a policeman dad who has trouble showing affection, but it is perhaps just that lost quality that actually adds to ... Read More
Rating: - A Shiksa Among Us * * * 1/2
A STRANGER AMONG US is almost universally considered one of Director Sidney Lumet's weakest creations, a wholly derivative film based on Harrison Ford's small but memorable tour de force in WITNESS. Lumet takes Ford's sojourn among the Amish of Pennsylvania and transmogrifies it into Melanie Griffith's sojourn among the Hasidim of Brooklyn.
Lumet does his usual splendid job of presenting New York City dynamically and organically, not just as a city of steel and glass, walls and bridges, ... Read More
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