Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas

A Monster with a Thousand Heads is a 2015 Mexican thriller film, directed and produced by Rodrigo Plá and written by Laura Santullo. The film stars Jana Raluy, as a wife desperate to beat the bureaucracy, when her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive. A Monster with a Thousand Heads premiered at the 72nd Venice Film Festival as the opening film of the Orizzonti section. The film also received seven nominations for the Ariel Awards in Mexico, including Best Picture, Best Direction and Best Actress, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was named on the shortlist for Mexico's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected. Plot Sonia Bonet (Jana Raluy) tries to take justice into her own hands after a health-insurance company named Alta Salud refuses to approve the care of her dying spouse. She and her son Dario (Sebastián Aguirre) attempt to fight the system, forcing the company employees to perform the corresponding procedure. Cast Jana Raluy as Sonia Bonet Sebastián Aguirre as Dario Emilio Echevarría as Enrique Sandoval Núñez Hugo Albores as Dr. Villalba Daniel Giménez Cacho as Nicolás Pietro Daniel Cubillo as Memo (Sonia's husband) Veronica Falcón as Lorena Morgan Úrsula Pruneda as Mónica Noé Hernández as Doorman Harold Torres as Police Agent 1 Marisol Centeno as Lorena Morgan's assistant Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Prosecutor (voice)