Making its screening debut at Event Cinemas in Bondi Junction, the film spans four generations of the Hughes family, including celebrated jazz pianist and Fairfax Community Newspapers sub-editor, Richard ``Dick'' Hughes and his daughter, singer and performer Christa Hughes.

Making up the four generations are Dick's father and grandfather, both also known as Richard Hughes.

The title, You Only Live Twice, is a reference to Dick's journalist father, whose friends included James Bond creator Ian Fleming and the spy-thriller writer John LeCarre.

Both authors created fictional characters based on Hughes ``Dikko'' Henderson in the Bond story You Only Live Twice and Bill Craw in LeCarre's The Honourable Schoolboy.

LeCarre also appears in the Hughes family documentary along with some famous Australians, including Barry Humphries, jazz legend Graeme Bell and Hong Kong-based cinematographer and filmmaker Chris Doyle, who cast Christa Hughes in his 1999 film Away with Words.

The first Richard Hughes launched a career as a stage ventriloquist when he was still in his teens, wrote three best-selling books on ventriloquism and also met a famous writer, Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, when he toured Australia in 1910.

Immediately after the November9 screening there will be a question-and-answer session featuring the film's director, Brendan Young, and Christa Hughes live on stage.

The screening will be at 7pm on Monday, November9, at Event Cinemas, (formerly Greater Union), level6, 500Oxford Street, Bondi Junction. Tickets: $18 (adults), $16 (concessions).

You Only Live Twice is rated MA.

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