The Summer I Made Love

Alex and Bill, two high school seniors in a rural logging town look forward to their graduation, but have very different plans. Alex is a good student, wanting to go to college, where Bill takes after his blue collar father and wants to get a job locally.
Alex lost his father who was a teacher. He and his mother are good friends with Bill’s parents, Cynthia and Buck. Bill and Alex work on projects together including restoring an old Camaro together with Buck’s help. Buck wants to turn his son into a man, and takes him with his drinking friends to a house of prostitution on the outskirts of town.
Bill fails miserably and is distraught about the experience so much that he tries to commit suicide. Alex prevents him from doing so luckily, rescuing him from a bridge over a rushing river. Alex becomes closer to Cynthia, Bill’s pretty and younger mother.
She also can’t connect well to her husband, and the two have an affair, which they feel terrible about and stop. Bill however has seen them together and tells his father, who grabs his rifle and goes looking for Alex wanting to kill him.
Buck takes Alex to a nearby cliff and threatens to shoot him. Cynthia shows up and manages to talk him out of it. Their relations are all shattered but nobody is dead.
The next year Alex and Bill get back in touch. Alex has been accepted to a nearly college, and has maintained his relationship with a girlfriend he met working at the hardware store. Bill has gotten a local job and is happy being a blue collar worker.
There is still distance between the two of them but they wish the best for each other.