Importance of Mobile, AL

Forrest Gump's home town, Mobile, is called "candyass" by his roommate at the University of Alabama, Curtis, in comparison to his own hometown, Opp, where they make peanut butter. Mobile is also near Flomaton, where the All State Football Banquet is held. Little is shown of Mobile, but Forrest eventually returns there to check up on his Mama, whose house burns down while he is in Vietnam. He hears that she is in the Little Sisters of the Poor home, but the head sister can only suggest that Forrest ask around in the park, as she has left in the company of some protestant. Forrest finds her working in a dry cleaner and living in a rooming house. He returns for her when his shrimp farm grows big enough to need a book keeper.