End of the Tour, The

When a chain-smoking, Rolling Stone magazine journalist (Jesse Eisenberg) in New York City learns that a famous, eccentric, bandana-wearing novelist (Jason Segel), who teaches writing as an English professor at a college in Chicago, committed suicide in this compelling, well-written, realistic, superbly acted, cameo-dotted (Joan Cusack, Ron Livingston, Mamie Gummer, and Anna Chlumsky), 106-minute film based on David Lipsky's bestselling memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, he reminisces about the conversations he had with David Foster Wallace during an interview in 1996 while accompanying him on a book tour to Minneapolis to promote Infinite Jest.
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