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Synopsis: The End of the Tour is a 2015 American drama film about writer David Foster Wallace. The film stars Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg, was written by Donald Margulies, and was directed by James Ponsoldt. Based on David Lipsky's best-selling memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, the film was released on July 31, 2015, by A24 Films.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Production: A24 Films
  4 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
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Year:
2015
106 min
Website
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LIPSKY (CONT’D)

It wasn’t the Upper East Side, and it

was dirty. I felt marooned. Our

mother had taken us off the track of

the nice life we’d been on. She’d

moored us in a creepy cul-de-sac with

her art-world friends.

14 EXT./INT. KGB BAR - NYC - 1996 - NIGHT 14

Deafening music. A crowded, noisy gathering of mostly young,

cool, black-attired New York writers and artists.

LIPSKY (V.O.) (CONTD)

None of the kids in my school had

parents in the art world. It made me

feel different. Like there was

something I had to cover up.”

Lipsky gets two glasses of wine from a bar. We FOLLOW as he

makes his way through the crowd. He knows a lot of people

with whom he exchanges ad-libbed greetings along the way.

They have to SHOUT to be heard above the din.

5.

BEARDED GUY:

David, hi! How’d your reading go?

LIPSKY:

Great!

BEARDED GUY:

Sorry I missed it!

LIPSKY:

Don’t worry about it!

Drinks held aloft, Lipsky continues into the crowd. A MODEL:

MODEL:

I heard you got the Rolling Stone job!

LIPSKY:

We’ll see! I’m sort of on probation!

Lipsky delivers the drink to Sarah, who stands in a circle of

acquaintances in mid-conversation.

SARAH’S FRIEND

Did you see Kirn’s review in New York

Magazine? The guy’s been f***ing

canonized!

LIPSKY:

Who’s this?

SARAH:

David Foster Wallace.

15

INT. LIPSKY’S W 77TH ST APT/BEDROOM/BATHROOM - NYC - 1996 - 15

NIGHT:

Lipsky, at the bathroom door, reads aloud Walter Kirn’s

review in New York magazine (2/12/96). Sarah comes out in a

towel and he follows her to the bedroom.

LIPSKY:

“Next year’s book awards have been

decided.” Can you believe this? “The

plaques and citations can now be put

into escrow.” Unbelievable. “With

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace -

a plutonium-dense, satirical whiz-kid

opus that runs to almost a thousand

pages

She kisses him as she goes past.

6.

LIPSKY (CONTD)

- (not including footnotes) - thecompetition has been obliterated.

It’s as though Paul Bunyan had joined

the NFL or Wittgenstein had gone onJeopardy! The novel is that colossallydisruptive. And that spectacularlygood.” That’s the f***ing opening

paragraph!

SARAH:

What if it actually is that good? You

know? You may just have to read it.

16 INT. LIPSKY’S W 77TH ST APT/LIVING ROOM - NYC - 1996 - DUSK 16

If his 2008 place is grad-student-y, the 1996 Lipskyresidence is smaller and explosively chaotic, like ateenager’s domain. We find Sarah on the couch reading thecurrent bestseller, Primary Colors and Lipsky beside herreading Infinite Jest. Silence.

Sh*t.

LIPSKY:

17 INT. ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE/CUBICLES/BOB'S OFFICE - NYC -

1996 - DAY

17

Buzzing with the hip, youthful industry of people who knowthey’re at the place to be. Lipsky drops by to see hiseditor, BOB LEVIN, 40, greying, bearded.

LIPSKY:

How many times have we interviewed awriter in the last ten years? Guess.

BOB:

Um... how many?

Zero.

LIPSKY:

I checked.

BOB:

Maybe that’s because Rolling Stone

doesn’t interview writers.

LIPSKY:

There hasn’t been a writer like this

one. Once in a generation, maybe.

Hemingway, Pynchon. Let me have this

story.

BOB:

What story?

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Donald Margulies

Donald Margulies is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University. In 2000, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Dinner with Friends. more…

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