My Best Worst Adventure

Ninety percent of film has Thai actors on-screen, even though subtitles often don't translate what periphery characters say. Some viewers might critique the film for highlighting a more rudimentary kind of Thai community and lifestyle (in a small village) that portrays Thais to be survivalists, alcoholics, or domestic violence abusers, and where teachers punish their students in humiliating ways. Still, the clear stars are a 13-year-old Asian girl and her Thai friend, a younger boy who doesn't speak and loves his pet buffalo.

A father whips his young son with a switch (a long flexible stick/branch) on separate occasions. A woman kicks a man in the privates. A man gets beaten up by other men. A father locks his young son in a cage. A girl punches and beats up an older boy. Boys chase a girl with sticks but don't catch her. A vine/tree monster haunts a girl's dreams. In one, the monster wraps around her mother and drags her away. Scenes suggest that a girl's mother died in the past. A pet buffalo gets scared and runs away through barbed wire fencing; it cuts him and wraps around him in the process. A boy starts to lift up a girl's skirt suggestively, but it quickly turns out he saw a leech and wanted to remove it.

An older boy in the village clearly likes Jenny, a 13-year-old girl. Two kids briefly kiss.

Strong language includes only one "bitch" and one "damn."

Adults drink alcohol, and one man is portrayed as being addicted to alcohol. Adults also smoke cigarettes.