The End of The Tour is about the book tour of David Foster Wallace as he was being followed by Rolling Stone Reporter David Lipsy, who believed David Foster Wallace was the Hemingway, or Salinger of our generation. The film revolves around the relationship that consequently develops on five days of the tour as Wallace promotes his 90's breakthrough novel "Infinite Jeste". Wallace subsequently killed himself at a young age, and therefore we never got to experience the entire depth of his genius.
The relationship is confusing. The relationship is loving. The relationship is angry. And the relationship is genuine and interesting. But in a society when we can't stand a movie that doesn't have a super-hero and stuff blowing up, this might be hard for some to digest.
The movie stars Jason Siegel (Freaks and Geeks, and How I Met Your Mother) as David Foster Wallace, and Jessie Eisenberg as David Lipsy. And although this movie is very intellectual, (it's basically "My Dinner With Andre" but instead in a car and not a restaurant), it still has all of the Grand Rapids skylines in the background to make it fun for we West Michigan folks.
I saw this in the theater last week. It was down to one showing a day. So I am sure it's gone by now. But I can't wait for the DVD. Because it was such a great film? Nope. More because there was a book store patron at a book signing who was amazing! It's the guy sitting to the left of the brilliant redhead in the bookstore. Who is this future super-star?
Yeah, that's me and I couldn't be happier that this is getting Oscar buzz for Jason Segal. Too bad the action that was filmed with the banged black haired girl in front of me didn't make the cut. I would have been seen much more than I was. But I was seen a goodly amount as these things go.
As a sidenote I would like to offer that this was a brutal shoot. There were times we were kept outside in cold temps for unGodly amounts of time, and there was the fact that we had a 11:00 call in Grand Haven. So I left the house at 9:00 meaning I had to get up at 7:30 to be ready. They let us go at 4:00 am. And then two hours home. So I got up at 7:30am on one day and fell in bed at 6:00am the next. Yeah, show biz can be really rough.
Anyway. This really is a good movie. But it's one of those red-box once you've seen it, you've seen it kind of movies that I can't say that many folks will like it. I'll own it and give copies to my kids, but I'm thinking that none of them will actually watch it.
But I get to add another thing for my wife to place on my casket. He didn't do much, but he did this!
Oh yeah and if Jason Segal gets an Oscar nomination, that would be pretty cool too!
Grade: C+
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