Cheese with your turkey?

What is it about Christmas that makes movies, music and books so awfully naff? Richard Fitzpatrick gets nostalgic

IN the film About a Boy, based on Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, the protagonist is a loafer. Played by Hugh Grant, he doesn’t work because he has the royalties every year from his dad’s successful Christmas song, ‘Santa’s Super Sleigh’.

It’s a dream scenario.