‘Five Finger Discount’ comes to TV

JERSEY CITY — Based on Helene Stapinski’s blockbuster memoir “Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History,” the long-form documentary “Five Finger Discount” airs on Channel Thirteen PBS at 9 p.m. on Monday, March 6. The film brings to life Helene’s saga of growing up in Jersey City in a family nearly overrun with crooks, petty criminals, corrupt politicians, mobster wannabes and murderers.
Narrated by Stapinski herself, and including new material from her life today, “Five Finger Discount” takes the viewer inside one woman’s struggle to confront her family legacy, leave it behind her and become a writer, without losing who she is and the people she loves.
Photo is from the shoot on a boat near the Colgate Clock in Jersey City.