The biggest problem I had with this is that it felt very...written. I didn't buy any of the stories because they didn't feel real to me. Each woman's words came off as made up by someone who thinks he really knows how to write believable and nuanced characters. And maybe he does in a different format. But this documentary style did not work at all. I kept wondering throughout, "Who are these women talking to? Are they talking to me? An interviewer? Why are they telling these stories?" Even in the last vignette with Kathy Baker, she mentions that she never told anyone her dream before, and I couldn't help but wonder, "So why are you telling it now, and to whom??? Who asked you?"
The performances were all adequate, although I couldn't buy into them beyond thinking that they were capable actresses giving overly-scripted monologues. All the digressions in each one's storytelling rang false. ("It reminded me of a dream I had or an article I read, or blah blah blah.") People don't stop in the middle of a story to wax on about recurring dreams they've had since they were young - that's a painfully obvious trope to flesh out characters who are doing nothing for an hour and a half but talking at the viewer from the same spot on the screen. I'm being harsh because it stuck out as really poor writing, and it bugged me.
The only character that struck me as realistic and more honest was Lisa Gay Hamilton's. Her performance felt truer, as if she really were recounting a past experience. I think that had more to do with the fact that her speech patterns were closer to how someone really talks when telling a personal story, and when she digressed, it felt linked to her main story. Her vignette was the strongest of the bunch in my opinion.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this film unless you really have nothing else to do.