Noo Hin: The Movie

Noo Hin: The Movie
The Thai movie poster.
Directed by	Komgrit Triwimol
Produced by	Nonzee Nimibutr Yod Sukwiwat
Written by	Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Starring	Runglawan Thonahongsa Thanyakan Thanakitthananon Panisa Buacharoen Adisorn Insee Nahatai Lekbumrung
Distributed by	Sahamongkol Film International
Release date	June 1, 2006
Running time	102 min.
Country	Thailand
Language	Thai Lao
Budget	40 million baht

Noo Hin: The Movie (Thai: หนูหิ่น เดอะ มูฟวี่) is a 2006 comedy film based on a popular Thai comic book and graphic novel series about a plucky domestic worker from Isan who's working for an upper class family in Bangkok. It was directed by Komgrit Triwimol and co-produced by Nonzee Nimibutr with a screenplay by Kongdej Jaturanrasamee.

Noo Hin is a young woman living in Ubon Ratchathani in Northeast Thailand, and as the story opens, she is hunting for something to eat, and she spots a lizard (an animated character), which she chases throughout the countryside, causing a stampede of water buffalo and disrupting a village fair.

Noo Hin, it seems, is a constant troublemaker in the village, which as is typical for Isan is poor, with few prospects for jobs or a productive rice crop. Because Noo Hin is essentially useless, she must be sent to Bangkok to earn money in a factory.

Her departure at the railway station is a cause for celebration. Even the village band turns out to add to festivities.

As she rides on the train, Noo Hin imagines getting a job in a glamorous factory, making trendy bags, T-shirts and shoes. Her fantasy is acted out in a musical song-and-dance number. But at the employment agency, all that's left is a job in a rat-trap factory, which is horrifying to Noo Hin.

But as luck has it, an attractive, tall and large-breasted young woman strides into the agency looking for a new maid, and Noo Hin gets the job.