Importance of Cambridge, MA

Home to Harvard University, Cambridge is located across the Charles River from Boston. Jenny Curran lives there with philosophy student and would-be guru Rudolph. She takes in Forrest Gump, who has nowhere else to say, and offers a tour of Cambridge. He buys civilian clothes from a surplus store that make him look like a lumberjack. They run into the married Harvard professor, Dr. Quackenbush, whom she used to date. He is excited about teaching a new course, "Role of the Idiot in World Literature." At his invitation, Forrest sits in and accidentally starts a fire during the staging of King Lear. Forrest and Jenny live together happily for a while before he begins abusing marijuana and Jenny catches him being seduced by fans. Both leave town.