Kisses

Kisses is a 2008 Irish drama film directed by Lance Daly. The film is a coming of age drama about two ragamuffin preadolescents, next door neighbours from dysfunctional families living on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland, who run away together one Christmas holiday. Plot Dylan is kicked out of the house to go play by his father, Dylan talks to his neighbour, Kylie, about what a "prick" his father is, and his brother's decision to run away two years ago. Kylie tells him about the Sack Man, who kills kids, but Dylan says that it is just a story used by adults to control kids. Kylie is sent to walk her infant sibling in a stroller. When she returns, there is a motorcycle parked in the driveway. She is cajoled by her mother to give her uncle a kiss. When he is leaving and comes to Kylie's bedroom to say goodbye, Kylie hides under her bed, where she has cash in a shoe. Dylan's father screams at Dylan's mother and punches her, Dylan slams his handheld videogame into his father's face leaving leaves a plastic shard in his father's forehead. Dylan is chased by his father into an upstairs bathroom. Kylie comes to the rescue, manoeuvring a ladder near the window from Dylan's yard which allows him to escape his father. The pair run to a river, where a dredger is passing. They climb aboard over the protests of the captain, who gives them a ride to the end of the line, near Dublin and tells them about Bob Dylan—Dylan's namesake.