Can't think of the name of movie!!÷

I don't know the names of any of the actors and can't remember it's name but I know it's a movie that was out by 1996 so it was made before that atleast. Well it's in a small town. And this boy moved to NY and years later got into some trouble so he had to move back to his hometown. Well one of his old friend tried to get through to him but he was stealing and acting like bully and his friend never gave up and he ended up doing the right thing.