The End of the Tour

The End of the Tour (2015) is James Ponsoldt's drama you can watch online on iFILM. It's 1996, Infinite Jest has just landed, and a Rolling Stone writer drives out to spend a few days with its author. Five days of talking — that's the whole movie, and it's plenty.

David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) shows up at David Foster Wallace's snowbound Illinois house, and a strange mix of admiration, envy and wary closeness settles between them. They circle fame, loneliness, television, depression, and whether being a celebrated writer is something to want at all. Jason Segel, of all people, plays Wallace — and he's startlingly quiet and exact, no genius posturing, just a smart, exhausted guy in a bandana.

The script comes straight from Lipsky's real interview tapes, which he turned into a book years after Wallace's death. There's no plot in the usual sense, just two people and a conversation you won't want to leave. This one's for readers and anyone who'd rather have a great talk than a plot twist. Stream The End of the Tour (2015) online on iFILM.