Earnestly dedicated to the women depicted on screen, EAST OF WALL displays the grit and grind of living life as it comes in the Badlands while never muddying its subjects. After the death of her husband, Tabatha—a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer—wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
94% on Rotten Tomatoes:
"Tapping into universal tensions with a charged specificity, East of Wall is vibrant with its sense of place and, beneath its hard-knocks surface, a poetry of astonishment and yearning." - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"In her first feature, the writer-director Kate Beecroft gathers the right pieces for an authentic regional-realist film, based on Tabatha’s life on the ranch." -NEW YORK TIMES
"If “East of Wall” celebrates anything, it’s a kind of beautiful anarchy." -WASHINGTON POST
"It captures beauty and turmoil, sometimes in the same frame. They want you to understand the environs of these characters as much as you understand their souls; Fractured and beaten, yet still making space for whoever needs it." -INDIE WIREDramaPT1H37M2025-08-29