The End of the Tour (2015)

My youngest son and I are on a streak of watching movies that are very good, but ultimately painful in the truths that they reveal.  This is a movie based almost exclusively on an interview that Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (played by Jesse Einstein) had with David Foster Wallace (played by Jason Segal).  The setting is this.  Lipsky is a want to be author, having just published a book himself, who is almost incensed when he reads a review of Infinite Jest, Wallace's then current book.  He is railing against it to the point where his exasperated girlfriend says that he should just shut up and read it.  He does, and then he is like those who used to smoke but no longer do.  He is an evangelical when it comes to Wallace, and he convinces his editor to send him on a five day end of the book tour meeting with Wallace and write an article about it for the magazine.   The script for the movie comes almost entirely from those tapes, which never made it into an article, but after Wallace's suicide, did become a book, upon which this movie is based.  A glimpse at the angst of genius. You leave convinced it was hard to live within his psyche, and he left us with what he could.