 No Good Deed, based on a short story entitled  The House on Turk Street  by Dashiell Hammett, is about a police detective, Jack, who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack (Samuel L. Jackson) finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader s beautiful girlfriend, Erin (Milla Jovovich), is left alone to watch Jack. Erin, who we discover is a master manipulator of the men in the gang, reveals another side to Jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical cellist. She finds Jack s captivity an irresistible turn-on and he can t figure out if she s for real, or manipulating him, too. Before the gang returns, Jack and Erin s connection intensifies and who ends up with the money is anyone s guess.