Bill and Karen: An American Love Story
1999, NR, 108 min.
Directed by Jennifer Fox, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

American Love Story is a nine-part series of 54-minute episodes of director Fox’s intimate portrait of a marriage. The series focuses on Bill Sims and Karen Wilson, a black man and a white woman couple who struggle against racial stereotypes while keeping their family together. The film follows them over a year and a half and chronicles their lives. Segments 1 and 3 will screen at 6:30; segments 7 and 9 will screen at 9:30 Jennifer Fox will be in attendance for Q&As following the films. (See related interview in this week’s Screens section.) (NR, 108 min.) The Texas Documentary Tour is co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society, the UT Department of RTF, The Austin Chronicle, KLRU-TV, and SXSW Film.

This article appears in November 5 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.