A Stranger Among Us is a 1992 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith.

Hardened New York City homicide detective Emily Eden, daughter of a divorced former cop, and her partner Nick attempt to arrest two drug dealers.

After Nick is hospitalized and the dealers have been apprehended, Emily goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic diamond-cutter named Yaakov Klausman.

She questions the family of the Hasidic rebbe, an elderly Holocaust survivor who is revered for his wisdom and compassion toward his fellow Jews.

Shortly after, Emily saves the rebbe's daughter Leah from being scammed by brothers Anthony and Christopher Baldessari, who claim to be Yaakov's killers.

The website's consensus reads: "A disappointing misfire for director Sidney Lumet, A Stranger Among Us tries to tell a murder mystery and a fish-out-of-water love story, doing a disservice to both.

"[4] Peter Travers' review of the film for Rolling Stone reported that director "Sidney Lumet hits the shoals in this cop-out-of-water story," that "casting the babyvoiced Griffith as a hard case is a major miscalculation," and described writer Avrech’s script as "romance-novel mawkishness [with a] whodunit angle [that] is similarly lame.

"[5] A review of the film by Desson Howe in The Washington Post noted that Griffith's voice "isn't the bark of a no-nonsense, take-charge woman.

It's the squeak of a laryngitic munchkin," that her "inspiration-free performance attests merely to an ability to memorize a script," and that she is "sensationally miscast in this role.