In 1996, Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky begins a five-day interview with acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace following the publication of his groundbreaking epic, Infinite Jest. As the days progress, a tenuous yet intense relationship develops between the journalist and his 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.