The End of the Tour (2015) on Netflix
Rolling Stone sends reporter David Lipsky to interview novelist David Foster Wallace on his book tour. He tapes their talks as they travel from Illinois to Minneapolis.
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Plot summary
In 1996, David Lipsky, a writer whose own novel met with modest success, reads David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and is awed by it. He talks his editor at Rolling Stone into letting him write a profile of Wallace for the magazine, and the assignment sends him to the author's home near Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, where Wallace teaches writing. Wallace agrees to be taped, on the condition that anything he asks to keep off the record stays out of the article. The two talk about fame, television, loneliness and writing as they drive to a class he teaches, a diner and a convenience store, then fly to Minneapolis for the last stop on Wallace's book tour, where Lipsky meets Wallace's friends Julie and Betsy.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The End of the Tour (2015)
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- David Foster Wallace's literary estate was never asked to take part in The End of the Tour, did not give permission, and ultimately opposed the film.
- Jason Segel prepared to play David Foster Wallace by assembling a small book club to read Infinite Jest. Buying the novel, he was told by the saleswoman that every guy she had dated had an unread copy on his bookshelf.
- Muskegon County Airport stood in for Chicago O'Hare in the film, and the aircraft interior scenes were shot in a fuselage of an Embraer 145 inside a Muskegon hangar.
- Director James Ponsoldt said R.E.M. and Brian Eno feature on the soundtrack because David Foster Wallace and David Lipsky had conversations about the music they listened to during their time together.
