When Demi Moore tells Amy Adams that “there is such incredible diversity” in Adams’ choice of roles, Adams learns just how difficult it is to avoid accidentally quoting from one of Moore’s beloved past films. “I realized what I almost said to you, and then I was really embarrassed,” Adams says. “I almost said, ‘Ditto.’”

“Ditto,” of course, is a citation from 1990’s “Ghost” — a code word for the enduring love between Moore’s Molly and Patrick Swayze’s Sam after Sam is murdered. “I cried harder in ‘Ghost’ than I had cried in any movie up to that point in my life,” Adams adds. “You can say ditto!” Moore says.

Their films this year similarly go to great pains — literally! — to tell confrontational, feminist stories about women’s rage. In “Nightbitch,” directed by Marielle Heller, Adams’ character, Mother, faces each day of loving tedium at home with her toddler,...