Comedian Charlie Nobb's miserable Thanksgiving past not only haunts his Thanksgiving present, but promises a ruinous holiday for all if he can't get in touch with his "inner pie" in this audaciously black farce from director Jonas Batt.
Production Notes
Director/Producer Jonas Batt experienced life the hard way when,
just after shooting this comic short tale of twisted and strained
relationships, his own partnerships with Balancing Pies writer/producer
Jennifer Hinkey ended. "Jennifer left the project shortly
after principle photography was completed," remembered Batt,
"and the future of "Pies" was uncertain."
In "Balancing Pies" we meet Charlie whose entire life has been sorely lacking ever since, as a young boy, he accidentally dropped his grandmother's sickly pumpkin pies on the front lawn--ruining thanksgiving for the overbearing, podiatrically challenged woman.
As the years have passed, Charlie has done what he can to overcome
his calamitous beginning and dismally dysfunctional family by
hitting it big on the stand up comic circuit. Unfortunately, it's
not so easy to ignore your destiny, as Charlie 
discovers
when his obsessive girlfriend seems determined to add to his pie-misery
by way of her own familial driven quest for cherry pie perfection.
As his own partnership was ending, Batt discovered that, as in the film, life "issues" can not only undermine confidence, but destroy even the strongest relationships. Gathering his resources about him, Batt went back to Balancing Pies on his own and, after an often challenging six month absence, completed the film in fall of 1998. "It was too good of a film not to be finished," Batt said simply, "and the creative efforts of too many talented people would have gone for naught."
Having learned to love pie himself during his self imposed
hiatus, Batt then approached his editing responsibilities for
the film with renewed vigor and an unexpected perspective. His
unique filmic vision will have you laughing through the pain as
Charlie's very personal journey of self discovery leads him to
learn to love his very special (Apple) inner pie.