The End of the Tour

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Cast & Crew

Jesse Eisenberg
David Lipsky

Jason Segel
David Foster Wallace

Becky Ann Baker

Anna Chlumsky
Sarah

Joan Cusack
Patty

Mamie Gummer
Julie

Ron Livingston
David Lipsky's Editor

Mickey Sumner
Betsy

James Ponsoldt
Director

Donald Margulies
Screenwriter

David Kanter
Producer

Matt DeRoss
Producer

James Dahl
Producer

Mark C. Manuel
Producer

Ted O'Neal
Producer

Jakob Ihre
Cinematographer

Darrin Navarro
Film Editing

Danny Elfman
Original Music

Gerald Sullivan
Production Design

Sarah M. Pott
Art Director

Yvette Granata
Set Decoration

Emma Potter
Costume Design

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Audience Reviews for The End of the Tour

• May 25, 2016

  Jason Segel shines brightly in the, pleasantly surprising, breakthrough dramatic performance of the year.
  Super Reviewer
• Feb 10, 2016

  Experimenting with one-sentence reviews, and but also plus in the style of this film's subject, the inimitable David Foster Wallace, allows me to say that The End of the Tour is good in like the way that makes high-brow intellectuals, complete with black turtlenecks, white-framed-liberal-free-trade glasses, and Match.com profiles that reference Wittengensteinian praxis and well-researched Proust quotes, think they're sideline-spectators with the howling fantods at genetically superiors' like most significant life-event, but yet also the film fails to achieve full high-ejection, supra-orbitular virtuosity because while we get to know DFW's AM/PM TV-obsessed, like almost stereotypically basically totally-American self-perception, his fame, the thing that keeps him in a state of intra- and interpersonal solipsism and the thing that he's, during the whole Entertainment, like a orange-flashlighted construction worker screaming, howling, imprecating, "No, no, Lipsky, this way is only a carrot, not the brightly-lit Show you think you know!" and the thing that ultimately probably caused him to extinguish his map, is like totally unexplored because, aside from the sycophantic organizers, the people who burden DFW are largely absent and told but yet not shown.
  Super Reviewer
• Feb 06, 2016

  Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg star in the powerful character drama The End of the Tour. Based on a novel by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, the film follows a five-day interview that Lipsky had with acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace during Wallace's publicity tour for his novel Infinite Jest. Segel and Eisenberg give incredibly good performances and have great chemistry together. And, the discussions that the two have are fascinating; covering a variety of deep issues that are quite thought-provoking. However, the gritty film style can sometimes be distracting (though the rawness does add a certain reality to the scenes). The End of the Tour is an extraordinarily compelling film, and succeeds largely due to its sharp, witty dialog and the earnestness of the performances.
  Super Reviewer
• Dec 28, 2015

  If I hadn't read the book, and if I hadn't found it among a lacklustre movie selection on a transatlantic flight, I'm not sure I'd have watched the movie. Well cast, and well-written, but it's not so well-suited to the screen... And if I, the target audience, didn't really go for it, I'm not sure what the general audience will make of it; that's not to say that every movie has to please everyone, but suffice to say that this one's not for everyone.
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