Geoffrey Rush and Sophie   Nélisse   shot with my iPhone Los Angeles, CA —I made sure I was in town to catch this film screening at the Daryl Zanuck Theater on the Fox Film Studio Lot.   What a treat it was! The Book Thief is a film adapted from the Markus Zusak book by the same name.   It’s a story about life in Germany during that dark period of 1933-1945.   It’s a joint offering from Fox 2000 Pictures, Studio Babelsberg of Berlin. It’s about a young and illiterate girl, Liesel Meminger played by Sophie Nélisse .   Liesel gets taken by Nazi social services from her mother and sent to an older couple for adoption.   Liesel has to adapt to a new and somewhat frightening wartime life in different surroundings.   Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson play her new parents who are struggling to make ends meet during wartime.  They seem mismatched but Rush's  character  cuts the ice as he turns on the charm....