Marie and Bruce is a 2004 American comedy drama film directed by Tom Cairns, and starring Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick.

[1] The story opens on a typewriter as it slowly flies out of a multi-storied apartment building window, shatters on the sidewalk and is collected by a garbage truck.

Later, Marie explains it happened the previous evening when she lost her temper due to the noise of her writer husband Bruce's machine.

Throughout the film Marie regularly breaks the fourth wall, narrating with hate-filled language, and speaking with Bruce with seething sarcasm.

Marie is befriended by a Golden Retriever, who leads her through a door that magically takes her to a grassy field which she falls asleep on, which later is transformed into waves of the ocean that slowly envelop her.