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THE END OF THE TOUR

By James PONDSOLDT

Drama - Completed 2014

A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2015

Premieres

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 106 mn
- Director(s)
- James PONDSOLDT
- Writer(s)
- David LIPSKY, Donald MARGULIES
- Cast
- Jesse EISENBERG, Jason SEGEL, Joan CUSACK, Ron LIVINGSTON
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-0DB0-0000-6-0000-0000-J
- EIDR
- 10.5240/A0D7-BFCB-AD3D-4C57-98C0-Y
- Producer(s)
- David KANTER, Matt DEROSS, James DAHL, Mark MANUEL, Ted O'NEAL
- Synopsis
- In 1996, shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel Infinite Jest, acclaimed author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) sets off on a five-day interview with Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg). As the days pass, a tenuous yet significant relationship develops between journalist and subject. Lipsky and Wallace bob and weave around each other, revealing as much in what they don’t say as what the say. They share laughs, expose hidden frailties, yet it’s never clear when or to what extent they are being truthful. The interview is never published. Five days of audio tapes are packed away in Lipsky’s closet, and the two men never meet again.