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Best Independent Poster | 2016
Best Narrative Feature | 2015 | James
Best Actor | 2015 | Jason
Best Independent | 2016
Film | 2016 | Donald
Best Lead Actor | 2016 | Jason
Best Overlooked Film | 2016
Best Lead Actor | 2015 | Jason
2015 | James
Best Actor | 2015 | Jason
Best Actor | 2015 | Jason
Box Office Collection 3,002,884 USD
The song heard on the soundtrack when the film ends is "The Big Ship" by Brian Eno, one of David Foster Wallace's favorite songs. It was also used for the climax of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), another film that premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
The scene at Wallace's house where Wallace and Lipsky meet for the very first time was also the first time Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg met each other in real life.
In the scenes filmed at the home of Wallace (Jason Segel), meat had to be placed in the pants of both David Foster Wallace (Segel) and David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) in order to have the dogs all over them. In the scenes where the dogs woke up Lipsky (Eisenberg) peanut butter was also placed on his face, again, in order to attract the dogs.
David Lipsky's book was the main resource used by the screenwriter. Lipsky's tapes, which play a large part in the movie, were only used as a resource for the cast and crew during their research of the characters.
The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2013 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
"David Foster Wallace: It may be in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis: feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was actually nothing. And that you were nothing. And that it's all a delusion and you're so much better than everybody 'cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function."
"David Foster Wallace: I'm not saying watching t.v. is bad, or a waste of your time anymore than - like - masturbation is bad or a waste of your time; it's pleasant little way to spend a few minutes - but if you're doing it 20 times day; if your primary sexual relationship is with your hand - something is wrong... David Lipsky: Yeah, except with masturbation at least some action is being performed, right; isn't it that, that's better? David Foster Wallace: Ok; you can make me look like a real dick if you print this... David Lipsky: [laughs] No, I'm not going to - but if you can, speak into the mike... David Foster Wallace: Yes, you're performing muscular movements with your hand as you're jerking off. But what you're really doing, I think, is you're running a movie in your head. You're having a fantasy relationship with somebody who is not real... strictly to stimulate a neurological response. So as the Internet grows in the next 10, 15 years... and virtual reality pornography becomes a reality, we're gonna have to develop some real machinery inside our guts... to turn off pure, unalloyed pleasure. Or, I don't know about you, I'm gonna have to leave the planet. 'Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier... and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable... to sit alone with images on a screen... given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that's fine in low doses, but if it's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. David Lipsky: Well, come on. David Foster Wallace: In a meaningful way, you're going to die."
