I do love Sidney Lumet and most of the films he's done in his storied career. Even in A Stranger Among Us his love for his city of New York shines through. And he's Jewish which should have told him that this was a script to stay away from.
Melanie Griffith stars as a New York City homicide cop who catches the case of a young Hassidic man who works in the diamond district as many do stabbed to death. His occupation could have been the cause of his demise or it might be more personal.
In any event she decides to go live in Williamsburg among the Hassidic Jews the better to catch the killer. While there she develops sexual heat with Eric Thal, son of the Grand Rebbe in the sect. In a reverse of those old Doris Day and Sandra Dee roles it's the man zealously guarding his virtue. He's the planned successor and no Shiksa is going to disrupt that.
I'm sorry there's no way on God's green earth that the Hassidim would have cooperated with a female and a non-Jew in an investigation of anything. They're that insular and Sidney Lumet knew that.
Only the most ignorant of Goyim will buy for a second A Stranger Among Us.
Melanie Griffith stars as a New York City homicide cop who catches the case of a young Hassidic man who works in the diamond district as many do stabbed to death. His occupation could have been the cause of his demise or it might be more personal.
In any event she decides to go live in Williamsburg among the Hassidic Jews the better to catch the killer. While there she develops sexual heat with Eric Thal, son of the Grand Rebbe in the sect. In a reverse of those old Doris Day and Sandra Dee roles it's the man zealously guarding his virtue. He's the planned successor and no Shiksa is going to disrupt that.
I'm sorry there's no way on God's green earth that the Hassidim would have cooperated with a female and a non-Jew in an investigation of anything. They're that insular and Sidney Lumet knew that.
Only the most ignorant of Goyim will buy for a second A Stranger Among Us.