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Gonna Be a Soldier

Antiwar Comedy Shorts · Comedy / Satire / Dark Comedy · 6 min · 11K views

Directed by Jonny Lewis · Starring Kobe Humphries, Luba Chan, Mike Bash · 2016

Six-year-old Joey wants to be a doctor, but his parents cheerfully insist they're raising him to be a soldier who kills people.

A festival-winning antiwar satire that finds dark laughs in a family's unthinking militarism.

6-year-old Joey wants to be a doctor when he grows up, but his parents insist that instead they are raising him to be a soldier and kill people. Winner of 5 awards. Selected by 45 festivals.

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