The End of the Tour (2015)

David Foster Wallace is finishing up a book tour for Infinite Jest and agrees to have David Lipsky -- a reporter for Rolling Stone -- spend the last leg with him. This film was recommended to me more than 5 years ago, but the recommendation contained the sentence, "Nothing happens in this movie," which didn't exactly put it at the top of my to-see list. But I'm glad I finally got around to it. Though there are no big scenes, this felt like an honest glimpse. 

Wallace and Lipsky are two writers who, under different circumstances could've been true friends. They just hang out, doing mundane things like going to the movies and to the mall and shooting the shit. I especially enjoyed the way that Wallace opened his messy home to Lipsky -- sharing his last pop-tart and setting him up with a mattress on the floor in a spare room the dogs insist on being able to enter whenever they want. 

Jason Segel as Wallace did a surprisingly great job. He was eager and guarded and protective and petulant. He was a real person who seemed to sometimes forget the reporter/subject relationship, getting his feelings hurt when Lipsky wanted to lightly pump his friends for stories. Though it's true that nothing spectacular happens, that's kind of what makes this story so special.

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