Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mom in the new drama Rushed, is a force of nature. She says the rosary every morning between yelling for her kids to get ready for school and cussing about how they’ll be late.Barbara (Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Wayward Pines) also is a helicopter parent who calls her college freshman son, Jimmy (Jay Jay Warren of Bosch), daily to make sure that he’s awake for class.Hogan infuses Barbara with such lived-in certainty that her performance is the strongest reason to watch Rushed. Unfortunately, she and co-star Robert Patrick (Goliath, Terminator 2: Judgment Day), as Barbara’s husband, Jim, are mired in a story that feels too familiar, if not dated.Rushed 2021 Full Movie Download
The O’Briens are a working-class family in Upstate New York, Their son attends college several miles from home. Jimmy, and his roommate, Vergil (Justin Linville, Here Today), are pledging to join a fraternity, which involves crawling across broken glass and someone urinating on them. The fraternity brothers also bind their hands and lead them blindfolded out to the woods, where they recite a loyalty oath while guzzling alcohol.Barbara and Jim, who was a fraternity guy in his youth, know about the pledging but are unaware of the hazing and the abuse. The plot kicks into gear when Steven (Jake Weary, Animal Kingdom), the fraternity president who oozes privileged arrogance, decides he just doesn’t like Jimmy and spikes his beer with drugs at a frat party. As Jimmy reels, Stephen plies him with shots, then straps him to a chair with duct tape and pours more booze down his throat, ignoring Vergil’s pleas to stop and call an ambulance.After Jimmy’s death in the first act, the college administration’s determination that no one is liable, sends Barbara into a depression. She’s not the type of person to sit still for long, though, and she soon learns through online news reports about other hazing-related deaths. She sets out to contact these youths’ mothers, then meet with a senator (Jordan Lage, Madam Secretary) who was a member of her husband’s fraternity. Barbara hopes he’ll draft legislation that provides for more oversight during the pledging process.Barbara tapes her interviews with the other moms, including Mary Donohue (Peri Gilpin, Frasier)