James Ponsoldt’s latest stars Jesse Eisenberg as Rolling Stone contributing writer David Lipsky, dispatched in 1996 to spend five days on the road with 34-year-old literary sensation David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel in what is arguably a career-best performance) as he finishes a promotional tour across the Midwest in support of the recently published Infinite Jest—the novelist’s magnum opus, which transformed Wallace into a public figure, albeit a profoundly anxious and uncomfortable one. Along the way, the two men bond and bicker, clash and share laughs, and unveil a host of hidden weaknesses and fears that define them both as people and as artists. At once melancholy and charming, The End of the Tour is a moving and sophisticatedly rendered adaptation of Lipsky’s critically acclaimed record of these conversations, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, written after Wallace’s suicide in 2008. Eisenberg and Segel are magnetic and uncanny in their performances, revealing great depths of humor and tenderness as guided by Sundance vet Ponsoldt’s direction and Pulitzer Prize–winner Donald Margulies’s insightful and touching screenplay. An A24 release.