This story of the five-day 1996 interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace explores the tenuous yet intense relationship that develops between journalist and subject.

A compassionate biography that swerves convention, The End of the Tour is anchored by two ambitious lead performances and a sharp, observational screenplay. James Ponsoldt fashions a literary road movie that finds humor and a pensive melancholy in the intangibility of fame and the creative process.